Lee Jay Berman

Commercial Mediator

Commercial Mediator

Lee Jay Berman began as a full-time mediator for more than 26 years, and has successfully mediated over 2,400 matters. He is on the American Arbitration Association’s elite Master Mediator panel for employment matters, and is a national panelist on AAA’s commercial and construction panels. He is a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators, a Charter Diplomat with the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN), certified by the International Mediation Institute, and a Dispute Resolution Expert with the United Nations Development Programme. The NADN honored him with their inaugural “Distinguished Neutral of the Year” award in 2017. He is ranked “Top Ranked Mediator” nationally in Chambers & Partners in 2018-2019. He was Mediator of the Year for the US Bankruptcy Court in California, California’s Daily Journal twice named him “Top Neutral”, Acquisition International Magazine awarded him “Mediator of the Year – California” from 2012-2019, and he has been voted by his colleagues into the Who’s Who of International Commercial Mediation in 2012-2019. Lee Jay Berman is also a respected trainer. He founded the American Institute of Mediation, leaving his position as Director of Pepperdine Law School’s Mediating the Litigated Case program after seven years. In addition to lecturing and training at Pepperdine, he has also done so at Southwestern Law School, University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, Cal-State Northridge, UC Santa Barbara, and Bond University in Brisbane, Australia.