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This website is authored by Lester Levy, Esq.
a founding member of JAMS.

  • About
    • About Lester Levy
  • The Basics of Environmental Mediation
    • What types of Environmental Cases can be mediated?
    • The Benefits of Environmental Mediation
    • The Environmental Mediation Process
    • Insurance Company Involvement
    • The Mediation Outcome
  • Case Studies
    • Case Study 1: Objectivity as Resolution Tool Provided Through A Neutral Expert
    • Case Study 2: Working Together
    • Case Study 3: Swift, Fair and Efficient: Awarding Compensation to Toxic Tort Victims
    • Case Study 4: Sequenced Regulatory and Insurance Negotiations
    • Case Study 5: How Communication Both Causes and Ends Conflict
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environmental mediation

Welcome!

This website has a simple goal – to spread the word about the benefits of using mediation as a means of resolving environmental disputes. In contrast to litigation, environmental ADR offers a streamlined process that is well suited to resolving complicated, multi-party disputes. It is also a process that lends itself particularly well to the sort of science-based inquiry, which underlies many environmental legal controversies. The blog posts and case studies that I’ll be publishing on this … Read More

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Flexibility Is Key to Success in Mediation

"If it bends it’s funny; if it breaks, it isn’t.” Woody Allen, from Crimes and Misdemeanors Flexibility is one of the most important attributes we need to develop in life.  As Woody Allen reminds … read more

Environmental Mediation: A New Paradigm for Resolving Multi-Party Disputes

Some of you may already have seen a copy of my new ebook, in which I propose a new paradigm for resolving complex, multi-party environmental disputes. It relies on mediation -- not as it has been … Read More...

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The inter-generational theft of Brexit and climate change

In last week’s Brexit vote results, there was a tremendous divide between age groups. 73% of voters under the age of 25 voted to remain in the EU, while about 58% over the age of 45 voted to … Read More...

what types of environmental cases can be mediated

What types of Environmental Cases can be mediated?

Over the course of my career, mediation has proven successful in resolving every major type of “environmental” case or dispute.It has been equally effective in handling the most complex multi-party … read more

the environmental mediation process

The Environmental Mediation Process

What occurs in an Environmental Mediation is key to understanding how and why it works to save the parties time and unnecessary expense and is designed ultimately to deliver a better outcome for all … read more

the benefits of environmental mediation

The Benefits of Environmental Mediation

The issues which underlie environmental disputes are better resolved though mediation than through trial because “trial procedures” are not designed to address the substantive and procedural … Read More

About Me

lester-levy

I strongly believe in the value of mediation – said another way, environmental mediation really works. I would go even further: I believe that environmental disputes are perfectly suited to the mediation process – perhaps more so than any other area of legal practice. I have formed these views after mediating environmental cases for more than 20 years, throughout the United States, and having worked with thousands of lawyers, companies, insurance carriers, regulatory agencies and courts. My … Read more

My Latest Posts

  • The inter-generational theft of Brexit and climate change
  • Our Drinking Water Regulation Is So Weak Even Flint’s Water Got A Pass
  • Environmental Mediation: A New Paradigm for Resolving Multi-Party Disputes
  • Flexibility Is Key to Success in Mediation
  • Leaving the EU would put our environment at risk

Connect with Me

Lester Levy

JAMS- New York
620 Eighth Ave. (NY Times Building)
34th Floor
New York, NY 10018
P (212) 751-2700

JAMS- San Francisco
2 Embarcadero Center
Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94111
P (415) 982-5267

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