Alternative Dispute Resolution · Experience since 1996
Professional mediation, arbitration, and early neutral evaluation focused on efficient, fair, and lasting resolutions — across employment, insurance, commercial, and fair-housing matters.
Practice Areas
Each engagement begins with a careful read of the matter and a neutral process tailored to it — not the other way around.
The Process
Each ADR method resolves different disputes differently. Leslie helps you select the process that fits the matter, the parties, and the outcome you actually need.
A voluntary, confidential, facilitated conversation. Parties retain full control over the outcome; the neutral helps surface interests, test positions, and construct a settlement the parties themselves author.
Well-suited to ongoing relationships, sensitive facts, and matters where the parties want to preserve optionality.
A private, binding adjudication with the structure of a trial and the efficiency of a focused hearing. The arbitrator issues a written award; the decision is generally enforceable in court.
Well-suited to matters requiring a definitive decision, confidentiality, and specialized subject-matter expertise on the bench.
An efficient, non-binding assessment by an experienced neutral — delivered early, before discovery costs accumulate. The evaluation surfaces strengths, weaknesses, and realistic valuation ranges.
Well-suited to matters where the parties disagree sharply on merits or value and would benefit from a neutral's candid read.
Why Langbein ADR
Nearly three decades serving as a neutral — with substantive grounding in employment, insurance, commercial, and fair-housing law that sharpens every process decision.
Sensitive information, reputations, and business relationships are protected throughout the process — and after it ends. Privileged communications stay privileged.
Every dispute is unique. Leslie consults before every engagement — adjusting structure, pacing, and communication patterns to fit the matter and the parties involved.
Focused preparation and disciplined scheduling move matters forward without the unnecessary delays of traditional litigation — time back for what matters most.
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