Mediators

Mediation is a powerful tool that empowers lawyers and their clients to resolve disputes with certainty and control. It is incredibly cost-effective compared to expensive and protracted litigation. And it allows everyone involved to develop creative solutions in a safe, cooperative, and confidential process.

About Lawrence

Lawrence Glasner believes that all disputes can be resolved through mediation. His background as a litigator, combined with his extensive study and practice of mediation, certainly contribute to his effectiveness as a neutral. Lawrence is impartial, fair, persistent, and patient. He will work incredibly hard to help resolve your matter.

Lawrence focuses his mediation practice on litigated and non-litigated matters, including employment disputes, breach of contract, elder abuse, water law, real estate, non-profit and church law, and other civil matters.

He began practicing law as an associate in the employment law department of Rehwald, Rameson & Lewis in Los Angeles, eventually becoming the senior partner. He has vast experience litigating in state and federal court. He has resolved hundreds of cases via trial, arbitration, and mediation, including a $7 million settlement in a wage and hour case and a $5 million verdict in a civil assault and battery case.

Lawrence is a California SuperLawyer and Martindale-Hubble AV-rated. He trained in mediation with Randy Lowry at Pepperdine University’s Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution and with Monica Lichtenberger in Denver, Colorado.

In addition to his mediation practice, Lawrence teaches law and legal writing. He has taught for the California State Bar and continuing legal education seminars and trained staff members at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Human Trafficking in Los Angeles.

About Jessica

Jessica Katherine Glasner is a certified mediator and gifted facilitator who helps parties identify issues and interests and develop win-win solutions specializing in resolving high-conflict relationships. Jessica is currently enrolled in Harvard Law School’s Mediation and Conflict Management program.

Jessica is a summa cum laude graduate of Westmont College and earned an MA in Social Science with an emphasis on politics and society at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with Highest Honors. In her free time, you may find her hiking in the wilderness, traveling, playing the piano, or singing folk songs with her family in the shadow of the Trinity Alps. Like her father, she is a relentless peacemaker and dedicated to creating safe spaces for true reconciliation and lasting solutions to global conflicts.

Jessica’s Experience

• Certified mediator through Phoenix Strategies in Englewood, CO.
• Certificate in leadership and diplomacy in global times from Masa in partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
• Research contributor and content developer for The Jerusalem Institute of Justice and OneStep.life. 
• As a professional writer, editor, and optioned screenwriter, Jessica has editing credits for 30 released or soon-to-be-released books. Her clients include New York Times bestselling author Wayne Jacobson (publisher and co-writer of The Shack), Calev Myers, Danny Silk, professional football coach George Naum, and former Federal Minister of Minorities for Pakistan, Paul Bhatti.