Michael Leb

WHY CHOOSE ME? Unlike all the other mediators I know who handle employment cases, I have not only been outside counsel, but have done plaintiffs’ work, served as in-house lawyer and VP of Labor Relations at Safeway, and as Senior VP of HR for Wal-Mart where I was the “client” responsible for implementing compliance programs and participating in settlement discussions for many class action cases. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE - Full-time neutral since 2008. -35 years broad-based legal and executive experience. -Serves on the following panels: American Arbitration Association (Commercial, Labor And Employment Panel Mediator And Arbitrator); California Mediation And Conciliation Service; California Department of Human Resources and CCPOA; City Of Anaheim Police Department and APA; City Of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board; City Of Santa Monica Hearing Officer Panel; Los Angeles County Equity Oversight Panel; California Office of Administrative Hearings; California Public Employee Relations Board; United States District Court (C. D. Cal.) . - Lecturer at USC Gould School of Law and was Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. - Cum laude graduate of Yale and the University of Michigan Law School. - Conversant in Spanish and Italian and has some facility with Mandarin Chinese, Russian, French and Hebrew.