AWARD WINNING ARBITRATOR, ATTORNEY MEDIATOR & FORMER LOBBYIST

LEE ALPERT, ESQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALPERT DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND CONSULTING, Inc.
Northridge, California
January 2020 to Present
A founding shareholder and President of ADRC, Inc., an Arbitration, Mediation and Consulting entity through which Mr. Alpert handles sophisticated Business, Commercial, Construction, Healthcare and other related Arbitrations, Mediations and Consulting, as a multi-award-winning Arbitrator and Mediator, both through the American Arbitration Association and privately.

Grant/Shenon, A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION
1976 to January 2024
(Successor Corporation to Alpert Barr & Grant, A Professional Law Corporation, to Alpert Barr & Gross, A Professional Law Corporation, Alpert & Barr, A Professional Law Corporation, to Mink Alpert & Barr, A Professional Law Corporation, to Mink & Alpert, A Professional Law Corporation and to Law Offices of Lee Alpert, A Professional Law Corporation) Encino, California and currently located in Sherman Oaks, California.

Lee is founding principal and founding shareholder of all, except Grant/Shenon, where Mr. Alpert served as Senior Counsel to this full-service law firm, which represents clients in most legal aspects of administrative and governmental relations, arbitration and mediation, banking law, business law, civil litigation, commercial and construction law, corporate law, litigation lobbying and real estate.

Primary areas of personal expertise are in administrative and governmental relations, arbitration and mediation, business, commercial and construction, lobbying and real estate transactional law.

LOS ANGELES AND CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES

• President, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (Largest Municipal Water and Power Entity in the Country), 2008 to 2010.
• Commissioner, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, 2007 to 2010.
• Commissioner, Co-Chair of the California State Assembly Business Advisory Commission, 1996 to 2000.
• Airports Commissioner, Board of Airports, Los Angeles World Airways (overseeing LAX, Ontario, Van Nuys and Palmdale Airports), City of Los Angeles, 2000 to 2001.
• President, Board of Neighborhoods Commissioner, First Board of Neighborhood Empowerment, City of Los Angeles, 1999 to 2000.
• President, Building and Safety Commissioner, City of Los Angeles, Board of Building and Safety Commissioners, 1996 to 1999.
• Chair and Commissioner, Los Angeles County Commission on Judicial Procedures, 1989 to 2006.

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION ACTIVITIES

• Privately appointed Arbitrator and Arbitrator.
• Arbitrator and Mediator for American Arbitration Association, including on specialized panels of Commercial, Construction and Health Care.
• Recipient of American Arbitration Association award as Outstanding Commercial/Construction Arbitrator of the Year, 1984.
• Worked with then Executive Director of West Coast AAA in developing the first West Coast Mediation Program for American Arbitration Association.
• First Mediator for the American Arbitration Association on the West Coast.
• Mediator for AMP Mediation in Newport Beach, California.
• President of Alpert Dispute Resolution and Consulting, Incorporated.
• Mediate and arbitrate complex banking, business, entertainment, cable television, commercial, construction, family law, health care, not-for-profit, real estate, and a variety of other disputes both privately and through the American Arbitration Association.

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

• “An Earthquake’s Secret Unintended Consequences,” published in Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute (SPOSFI) News, September 2013.
• Co-Author of “Mediation: Strategies for Better Dispute Resolution,” a publication of the American Arbitration Association, 1987.
• Co-Author of “Mediation: An Alternative to the Litigation Wars,” published in Los Angeles Lawyer, April 1987.
• Associate and Contributing Editor of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Quarterly, 1983.
• Numerous additional legal and professional articles and editorials, 1970s to present.
• Guest opinion editorials and articles for publications including the LA Times, LA Daily News, LA Business Journal, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals.