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Nancy Lesser is the principal of Pax ADR LLC, an alternative dispute resolution firm established a decade ago in Washington, D.C. A former litigation partner with the distinguished law firm of Williams & Connolly, Ms. Lesser has spent over twenty years resolving complex disputes as an arbitrator and mediator. |
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Ms. Lesser has handled a wide variety of commercial arbitrations involving multi-million dollar claims. She has served as chair of a number of panels and has also served as sole arbitrator in other matters. Ms. Lesser has a broad range of arbitration experience, from contract and securities cases to intellectual property disputes, employment issues and insurance coverage claims. She has presided over a number of utility ratemaking cases; an audit of alleged overcharges by an electrical utility to a major municipality; accounting disputes regarding post-acquisition closing balance sheets; many breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claims between joint venture partners; cases addressing breaches of contracts between suppliers and customers for services or goods; and data compensation proceedings under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. For a representative listing of practice areas Ms. Lesser has handled, see Practice Areas. |
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| MEDIATION EXPERTISE | |
Ms. Lesser has been helping parties resolve seemingly intractable disputes for over fifteen years. She has mediated hundreds of complex business disputes, in cases as diverse as an accounting dispute between the City of New Orleans and an electrical utility; a 20-year class action between federal workers and the United States; False Claims Act qui tam actions and Sarbanes Oxley whistleblower cases; a host of breach of contract suits; wrongful death and personal injury claims against the District of Columbia; trademark and patent disputes involving industries as diverse as lighting, food products, medical devices, sound systems and software. For a representative listing of practice areas Ms. Lesser has handled, see Practice Areas. |
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| AFFILIATIONS and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | |
Ms. Lesser is a member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. She serves as the co-chair of the Ethical Guidance Committee of the Section of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association. She has served as mediation trainer for the U.S. Department of Justice, the International Trademark Association, and the International Law Institute. She speaks frequently on panels and to private groups. Ms. Lesser is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching seminars on alternative dispute resolution and negotiation. |
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| CONTACT INFORMATION | |
PAX ADR LLC Phone: (202) 775-8100 Email: info@paxadr.com |
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