Les Schiefelbein Email & Phone Number

Les Schiefelbein is the CEO and founder of Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution. He is a leading arbitrator and mediator serving in domestic and international cases in the resolution of complex multi-million dollar commercial and government disputes.Les brings to his practice an extensive background of more than thirty years as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, where he developed and led a successful arbitration and litigation practice of 18 attorneys with a near perfect record of 156 cases won and only two lost. He has arbitrated matters under the rules of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the London Court of International Arbitration and the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrations involved complex technical and unique legal issues in the design, production and performance of commercial and aerospace products each with a cost in the range of $15 million to $250 million. He defeated a plaintiff claim of $3 billion in a Civil False Claims Act litigation. At Lockheed Martin, Les was a trusted advisor to senior management on a wide range of aerospace and national security matters, global disputes, corporate governance and intellectual property issues. Les has negotiated contracts and business arrangements across the globe to include the first U.S. aerospace business with Russian partners and a state of the art air traffic control system in the Republic of China. Les further gained global dispute resolution experience as an Air Force Judge Advocate Reserve lawyer.Les is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, International Panel of Arbitrators, London Court of International Arbitration and the American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel. He is a member of the California Bar, Arizona Bar and District of Columbia Bar.

Listed skills include Arbitration, Corporate Law, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and 17 others.