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PO Box 251715
West Bloomfield, MI 48325, Michigan, 48325
Languages: English
Lisa W. Timmons, Esq. is the chair-elect of the ADR Section of the Michigan State Bar. She is an arbitrator, mediator, case evaluator, facilitator, and fact finder of labor, employment, consumer, and commercial cases with the American Arbitration Association (AAA) (employment, commercial, and consumer panels), New Era ADR, National Mediation and Arbitration (NAM), USPS & APWU Detroit District, FINRA, CAP-Motors, the American Health Law Association (AHLA), the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC), and several state and judicial arbitration and mediation boards and panels. Timmons has mediated over 1500 EEO cases for the USPS over 25 years as a mediator in the USPS’s Redress Program.
Timmons is a member of Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan (PREMi), the Michigan Regional Chair of WIDR (Women in Dispute Resolution) of the American Bar Association (ABA), and Chair of the ADR Section of the Wolverine Bar Association. She also maintains memberships with LERA’s National, SoCal, Central and Northeast Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, Houston, Connecticut Valley, New York City, and Detroit chapters, the Society of Federal Labor and Employee Relations Professionals, ArbitralWomen, and the Labor Guild of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Timmons earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Michigan State University, a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from Wayne State University, a Juris Doctor from Detroit Mercy Law, and is a Michigan licensed real estate broker. Timmons was named an Up-and-Coming Lawyer in 2021 by Michigan Lawyers Weekly and received the ADR Hero Award in 2022 from the ADR Section of the Michigan State Bar.
In addition to AAA, Timmons is an approved arbitrator on the following panels:
Permanent Panels: APWU & USPS, Detroit District Central Area (arbitrator: regular and expedited panels)
Private Panels: American Arbitration Association (AAA)(employment, commercial, and consumer panels), New Era ADR, Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan, LLC (PREMi), Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals (ACAN), National Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. (NAM), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), CAP-Motors (Consumer Arbitration Program for Motor Vehicles), American Health Law Association (AHLA)
Municipal, State, and Federal Panels & Boards: Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC), Iowa Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), Montana Board of Personnel Appeals, Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission, Nevada Local Government Employee Management Relations Board (arbitrator/mediator/fact-finder), Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations (resolution officer), Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS).