Lisa Pomerantz
Mediating & Arbitrating Workplace & Employment Matters with MWI
Phone: 617-895-4026 | Email: lpomerantz@mwi.org
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Dispute Resolution Experience
Lisa Pomerantz is an Arbitrator and Mediator with MWI. She also serves as a neutral on the American Arbitration Association Employment Panel, the EDNY Mediation Panel, and she has represented numerous employees and employers as settlement counsel in resolving a variety of employment related disputes involving statutory and/or contract claims.
Focus Areas
- Workplace
- Employment
- Higher Education
- Employment Discrimination
- FLSA and other statutory claims
- Recruiter Commission Disputes
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
- Member, EDNY Advisory Council (2020-2022)
- Past Co-Chair, Suffolk County Bar Association ADR Committee
- Past Board Member, New York State Dispute Resolution Association (2011-2015)
- Past Board Member, Association for Conflict Resolution (2014-2015)
- Recipient, Long Island Business News Leadership in Law Award (2011 and 2017)
- Recipient, Association for Conflict Resolution, Exemplary Leadership Award (2015)
- Author, “Workplace Violence Prevention: Personal Concerns and Professional
Opportunities for Conflict Resolution Practitioners”, ACResolution Magazine, Summer 2014
Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted
- Adjunct Professor, Touro Law School, 2021, Employment Law
- Adjunct Professor, Touro Law School, (2018 to date), Courses taught include: Arbitration, Interviewing
Negotiation, and Counseling - Visiting Instructor, University of Tartu, Estonia (2018, 2019), Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution - Visiting Instructor, Vilnius University, Lithuania (2019), Emerging Legal Issues in the 21st Century
Workplace
Representative Speaking Engagements
- “The Value of Transparency in Mediation”, 2020 Annual Conferences of Association for Conflict Resolution and New York State Dispute Resolution Association;
- “Common Attributes and Challenges of High-Emotion Conflicts in the Workplace and Family Business Settings”, International Mediation Symposium (2019)
- “Business Partnerships: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” Stony Brook Small Business Development Center (2019)
- “Building Your Business Through Diversity and Inclusion”, Suffolk Academy of Law (2018)
Background and Education
- Boston University (JD-1979)
- Harvard University (BA, Economics and History, cum laude-1976)
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