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Audrey Lee

Audrey Lee

Mediation & Negotiation Trainer with MWI
Phone: 617-895-4026 | Email: alee@mwi.org

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Dispute Resolution Experience

Audrey Lee is a Mediation Trainer for MWI, Senior Mediator at Boston Law Collaborative, LLP and the founding Principal of Perspectiva LLC. She is also Executive Director of the BLC Institute, a non-profit dedicated to providing education and training in all areas of dispute resolution. In addition to mediating at MWI, Audrey chairs BLC’s ADR Panel, and is a member of the EEOC Mediation Panel and a pool of Title IX Adjudicators for Harvard Law School. Previously, Audrey served as a mediator for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination where she mediated harassment, disability, age, race, and gender discrimination cases. A frequent lecturer and coach for mediation skills trainings, Audrey has trained scores of attorneys, law students, social workers, and other professionals. Since 2004, Audrey has facilitated executive education programs at the Harvard Negotiation Institute at Harvard Law School, currently as faculty for the Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating Complex Disputes. Audrey has also been on the faculty of Northwestern University School of Law, DePaul University College of Law, and the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston as a Negotiations Professor. Prior to becoming a mediator and trainer, Audrey practiced law as an intellectual property and litigation attorney at Winston & Strawn in Chicago and Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.


Focus Areas

  • Audrey has led mediation and mediation advocacy trainings for law firms, community mediation centers and several law schools.
  • Mediator, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
  • Mediator, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Mediation Panel
  • Mediator and Chair, Boston Law Collaborative ADR Panel

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

  • Co-Chair, 2015 MCLE ADR and the Law Conference
  • Member, Women’s Bar Association, ADR Committee
  • Member, NE-ACR
  • Harvard Law School Women’s Alliance of Boston, Past Founding Co-Chair
  • Association for Conflict Resolution – Chicago Chapter, Past President
  • Trainer of the Year, Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago
  • Harvard Law School Hewlett Law and Negotiation Research Fellowship

Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted

  • Diversity Issues in Mediation, Guest Lecturer, Harvard Law School Mediation Course
  • “Mediation Process & Skills,” Cook County Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program
  • “Interest-Based Negotiation Skills for Mediators,” Loyola University Chicago Law School

Publications


Background and Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D.
  • Harvard University, A.B. magna cum laude in Government
  • Mediator Training, Harvard Mediation Program (Cambridge, MA)
  • Mediator Training, Center for Conflict Resolution (Chicago, IL)
  • Family Law Mediator Training, MCLE (Boston, MA)

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