About Lee Jay Berman
Mr. Berman is the Chair of the Training Committee for the American Bar Association's Section on Dispute Resolution. He has successfully mediated over 1000 litigated matters and is a member of the American Arbitration Association's National Registry of Mediators and AAA's select panels including: Large Complex Cases, Business & Commercial, Employment and Construction Mediation, as well as the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Lee Jay is Director of the Mediating the Litigated Case program for the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and he Chairs the Training Committee of the ABA's Section on Dispute Resolution. Mr. Berman has also conducted trainings for the U.S. Agency for International Development, AAA, the California Academy of Mediation Professionals, and multiple Bar Associations and Courts.
Mr. Berman was the inaugural Director of the Court Administered Dispute Resolution (CADRe) Program for the Superior Courts of Santa Barbara County. He recently completed 8 years on the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC) Board, and 7 years Chairing CDRC's Qualifications & Standards Committee which published CDRC's Standards of Practice for California Mediators in 1998.
Mr. Berman has an active commercial mediation practice and teaches mediation and negotiation skills through Pepperdine's Straus Institute.
