Lisa M. Richman is Global Co-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 international dispute resolution matters, with particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.
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 ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, DIAC, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, health, life sciences, insurance coverage, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures, transportation and construction.
Lisa also sits as arbitrator and was designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators for a six-year term in July 2020. She is listed on the AAA’s Roster of Arbitrators, the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals, and the USCIB Arbitrator Database (the ICC arbitrator roster for the US). In addition, Lisa is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel and of the Organizing Committee of the Kiev Arbitration Days; she previously served on the ITA Americas Committee, the ABA International Law Section Planning Committee, the CPR Arbitration Committee, and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She speaks regularly at conferences and law schools around the world, including by invitation of the faculty at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor teaching International Arbitration at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Lisa is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.
She has received recognition for her expertise as a dispute resolution specialist by, among others, Global Arbitration Review, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, the Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, Juve, Super Lawyers and Law360.
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