Lisa Richman

Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte LLP

Speaker

Lisa M. Richman is Global Head of McDermott’s International Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice Group, Co-National Hiring Partner and previously served as the Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, DC office. She focuses her practice on domestic international dispute resolution matters, with particular emphasis on commercial arbitration and mediation.

Lisa represents corporations, governments, government-owned entities and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations, litigations and mediations in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under all of the major arbitral rules in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, health, life sciences, pharmaceutical, natural resources, insurance coverage, intellectual property, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures, transportation and construction.

In addition to her work as counsel, Lisa also sits as arbitrator, including in commercial and investment treaty cases and is an Adjunct Professor teaching International Arbitration at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Lisa has received recognition for her expertise as a dispute resolution specialist by, among others, Global Arbitration Review, Chambers, Legal 500, Lexology’s International Arbitration Index, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, the Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, Juve, Super Lawyers, and Law360. She is a native German speaker and also works in French and Spanish.