Mr Mark E Lassiter

About Mr Mark E Lassiter

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify">I am a business lawyer focusing in dispute resolution, and a professional arbitrator, mediator and neutral.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify">As a lawyer, I am a California and Arizona AV Rated&reg;, Southwest Super Lawyer&reg; and a sustaining member of Arizona&rsquo;s Finest Lawyers &trade; with over 36 years of experience as a civil trial attorney focusing in Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR"), Business, Real Estate, Construction, and Technology litigation (80%) and related transactions (20%). I do not handle &ldquo;consumer legal matter&rdquo; arising out of personal, family or household matters. I am a business lawyer who represents companies and business professionals. I have handled a wide variety of legal matters, including <strong>business disputes and transactions arising from: commercial breach of contract claims</strong>; <strong>breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition and other business torts</strong>; <strong>construction contract claims</strong>; <strong>technology </strong>and <strong>software licensing agreements</strong>; <strong>computer technology </strong>and/or <strong>software disputes</strong>; <strong>securities law violations</strong>; <strong>employment compensation </strong>and <strong>covenant not to compete </strong>disputes; business buy-sell and sale of business disputes; <strong>dissolutions of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies (&ldquo;LLCs&rdquo;)</strong>; <strong>&ldquo;business divorce&rdquo; disputes</strong> among partners, shareholders, members and other business principals; <strong>business insurance coverage disputes</strong>; <strong>real estate and construction disputes arising from private commercial, industrial, retail and residential construction projects</strong>; <strong>disputes arising from real estate purchase and sale contracts, commercial real estate leases</strong>, IRC &sect;1031 tax deferred exchanges, escrows, and the co-ownership of real property. I have considerable experience in provisional remedies and emergency relief (e.g., <strong>injunctions, receiverships and pre-judgment asset seizures</strong>), and in <strong>electronic evidence discovery</strong> of Electronically Stored Information (&ldquo;EED/ESI&rdquo;) matters.</p> <p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in; text-align:justify">As an ADR "resolutionary," I think of revolutionary ways to resolve disputes between adverse parties as a professional neutral. I have been a <strong>commercial arbitrator </strong>with the <strong>American Arbitration Association (&ldquo;AAA&rdquo;)</strong> for 28 years, and serve on its Commercial, Construction and Large and Complex Case panels. I also serve on the arbitration panels of the <strong>International Centre for Dispute Resolution (the &ldquo;ICDR&rdquo;)</strong> and the <strong>National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (the "NADN")</strong>. In 2016 I was inducted as a Fellow into the prestigious <strong>College of Commercial Arbitrators</strong>. I am also a <strong>mediator </strong>for the AAA and the NADN. The Maricopa County (Phoenix) Superior Court appointed me as a <strong>receiver </strong>(2005) to take over the affairs of a law firm embroiled in a dispute amongst its partners, as a <strong>special maste</strong>r (2006) in a limited liability company dissolution matter, and as an eDiscovery Special Master (2019).</p>

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• Law School: Loyola U - California

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