The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law announced this year’s 2021 Alumni Service Award honoree, Mr. Lester W. Schiefelbein, Jr., JD, LLM.
In 2018, Les provided an endowment to establish the Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Program within the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center at ASU Law. The program hosts an annual global dispute resolution conference and provides scholarships for ASU Law students to gain knowledge, experience and the necessary professional contacts to prepare them for careers in the global dispute resolution community.
Les will be recognized at the upcoming 2021 Gold ’n Gavel Auction and Reception on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 6 p.m. at the Beus Center for Law and Society and virtually.
More about Les
Les Schiefelbein serves as an independent commercial arbitrator and mediator in domestic and international disputes. He founded Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution to bring his more than 30 years of industry and government experience, as vice president and deputy general counsel at Lockheed Martin and as an Air Force Judge Advocate Reserve (Colonel), in resolving international and domestic legal and business matters to the practice of dispute resolution.
He has handled over 300 cases in the course of his career, and has gained particular expertise as a sole or panelist arbitrator in commercial and government contracts. Read full bio here.