Lynne S. Bassis
(Full-Time Neutral)
Lynne Bassis, a student of the neurosciences, is an accomplished mediator, dispute resolution trainer, dispute management design consultant for businesses and speaker. She works with parties and counsel at the Intersection of Law and Human Emotion as she helps people reconcile their differences and settle cases. She offers her unique brand of mediation to businesses before lawsuits have been filed as well as in litigation cases. Mediating since 1989 and conducting mediation training since 1993, Ms. Bassis, as observed by all parties at the table, is tenacious and skilled in her handling of the sensitive issues that arise in mediation.
Ms. Bassis is well known amongst both the plaintiff and defense bars in both the private and public sectors as the “go-to person” to handle the emotionally laden case, across all substantive practice areas. These areas include employment, wage and hour, disability discrimination, elder, trusts and estates, real estate, business disputes, catastrophic injury, transportation, intra-family, professional negligence, and class action matters. That she’s smart on the law and well prepared is a given; what is remarkable is her ability to master the personalities of cases and people, and to create rapport and confidence, that enable her to bring cases to closure. Following no particular mediation model, with the input of parties and counsel, she custom designs the mediation process for each case she handles and has the knowledge, experience and sense to do what works. She is not afraid to offer firm but sensitive appraisals for each party to consider during the negotiations.
Ms. Bassis, a native Californian, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained her Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. After a stint in the Peace Corps, in the Federated States of Micronesia, Ms. Bassis practiced law in California for 19 years in both the public and private sectors. She has been conducting mediation training for the Los Angeles County Bar Association since 1993 and was Director and Adjunct Professor of the Disability Mediation Center at Loyola Law School from 1999-2001. Sitting on several provider groups in southern California, including Alternative Resolution Centers (ARC), American Arbitration Panel (AAA), NASD Mediation Pool, Inland Valley and Arbitration and mediation Services (IVAMS), she is a highly sought after neutral.
Ms. Bassis’ professional affiliations include: Distinguished Fellow membership in the International Academy of Mediators.
Ms. Bassis was named "Super Lawyer" in the field of ADR for 2007, 2008 and 2009, an honor bestowed upon 5% of southern California lawyers. The selection process includes nominations from all lawyers who are in practice for more than five years, and in-depth research process that scores and ranks nominees and a final election of the Super Lawyers by a blue ribbon panel comprised of 300-400 lawyers in southern California.
Ms. Bassis will be included in the Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers for 2009.
In the past, Ms. Bassis sat on the Southern California Mediation Association Board of Directors, was a member of the State Bar Labor & Employment Executive Committee and was Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, Attorney-Client Mediation and Arbitration Services, Los Angeles County Bar Association.
