Leslie W. LangbeinA practitioner's practitioner.

Ms. Langbein joined the Miami law firm of Valdes-Fauli, Cobb & Petrey and was assigned to serve as the General Counsel of Florida International University. After an extended engagement at the University, she joined her husband to form Langbein & Langbein, P.A.

From then on, Ms. Langbein represented clients in federal and state courts and administrative proceedings, focusing on Administrative, Employment, Fair Housing, Title III, ADA, and Commercial law.

During the same period, she appeared regularly before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, and local human rights agencies.

Substantive expertise is not optional. The cases that ADR resolves well are the same cases that litigation resolves slowly.

Her career as a neutral began when she became a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit/Civil Mediator and, at the same time, a Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator. She was later accepted onto the American Arbitration Association's national panel of Labor Arbitrators and simultaneously became an arbitrator for the State University System.

Ms. Langbein has served as a national trainer for AAA and has been a presenter at conferences and seminars. She holds appointment as a Special Magistrate by the Florida Public Employee Relations Commission. She was accepted into membership of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, joined the labor panel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and was placed on the National Mediation Board Panel of Arbitrators.