About Us
Lisa W. Timmons, Esq.
Lisa W. Timmons, Esq. has over twenty-five years of experience in alternative dispute resolution, with a focus on labor, employment, and commercial matters. Serving as an arbitrator, mediator, hearing officer, and fact-finder, she works across both public and private sectors, resolving complex workplace and business disputes.
Timmons serves on the rosters of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), the Labor Relations Connection (LRC), the National Mediation Board, New Era ADR, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and many state and municipal labor boards. She is a standing arbitrator for the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), and the United States Postal Service (USPS), and has mediated over 1,500 cases through the USPS REDRESS Program.
Timmons has a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and a Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from Wayne State University.
Timmons is the Executive Director of Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan, LLC (PREMi), Immediate Past Chair of the ADR Section of the State Bar of Michigan (2024-2025), Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Mediation Committee (2025–2026), and Neutral Co-Chair of the ABA’s State and Local Government and Bargaining Employees Committee of the Labor and Employment Section (2025-2028).
As a former adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Timmons regularly writes and speaks on ADR topics. She is the current Editor of The Michigan Dispute Resolution Journal and a contributing author for the Michigan State Bar's Labor and Employment Law Section.
Neutral Experience
Permanent Panels
- APWU and USPS, Detroit District Central Area (regular and expedited, arbitrator)
- NALC and USPS, Illinois (regular, expedited, and impasse)
Private Panels
- American Arbitration Association (AAA), arbitrator and mediator (labor, employment, commercial, early dispute resolution, and consumer panels)
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
- The Labor Relations Connection (LRC)
- New Era ADR
- National Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. (NAM)
- Louisville Labor-Management Committee
- Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals (ACAN)
- PREMi, (Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan, LLC)
- CAP-Motors (Consumer Arbitration Program for Motor Vehicles)
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), arbitrator
- American Health Law Association (AHLA), arbitrator
Federal, State, Judicial Boards & Panels
- Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC), grievance arbitrator
- Ohio State Employment Relations Board (arbitrator and factfinder)
- Washington, D.C. PERB, arbitrator, hearing officer & mediator
- Illinois Labor Relations Board
- Illinois State Universities Civil Service System (hearing officer)
- Alaska Labor Relations Agency
- U.S. Dept. of Education-Randolph-Sheppard Vending Program
- Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission, arbitrator
- Montana Board of Personnel Appeals
- U.S. Virgin Islands PERB
- Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations (resolution officer)
- Nevada Local Government Employee Management Relations Board (arbitrator/mediator/fact-finder)
- Mediator, Pro Se Prisoner Mediation Program, U.S. District Court, MI Eastern District
- Mediator, Oakland County Circuit and Business Court Discovery Mediation
Training
- Arbitration Institute, ADR Section of the ABA, June 2024
- NAA & LERA, Southwest Rockies, Labor Law Arbitrator Training, February 2024
- Early Dispute Resolution, AAA and EDR Institute, November 2023
- Arbitration Fundamentals and Best Practices for New AAA Arbitrators (2 days), September 2023
- AAA, Award Writing, September 2023
- NAA & LERA, Southwest Rockies, Labor Law Arbitrator Training, February 2023
- Arbitrator Training, American Health Law Association (AHLA), 2021
- General Civil Mediation
- Domestic Relations Mediation
- BALA, Labor Arbitration, FMCS
- Arbitration, AAA and FINRA
- Transformative Mediation, USPS
- ICLE, Probate & Estate Planning Certificate
- ICLE, Custody, Parenting Time, and Support Through Judgment Certificate
- ICLE, Family Law Certificate
Memberships
- State Bar of Michigan, Attorney
- State Bar of Michigan, Commissioner, District H
- US District Court, Eastern Michigan, Attorney
- Detroit Bar, Board of Directors, Co-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Immediate Past Chair, ADR Section, State Bar of Michigan, ADR Section (2025-2026)
- College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA) Associate (2024-26)
- LERA, national and several local chapters
- Vice President, Wolverine Bar Foundation
- Wolverine Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Oakland County Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association, Eastern MI District
- ArbitralWomen
- The Labor Guild
- New York State Bar Association (non-NY attorney membership
- California Arbitration
- Society of Federal Labor and Employee Relations Professionals
- International Council for Commercial Arbitration
Commercial and Workplace Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Arbitration, Mediation, Case Evaluation, and Fact Finding
Welcome
Lisa W. Timmons, PLLC
Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator, Fact-Finder
Labor, Employment, and Commercial Disputes