Mediator, Arbitrator and Private Judge

Former Judge Ellen L. Leesfield has recently been tapped as a member of the prestigious National Association of Distinguished Neutrals, an invitation-only professional association of the most trusted neutrals in our legal community. She has been Mediating and Arbitrating for over 11 years since leaving the Miami-Dade Circuit Court Bench where she served as an Administrative Chief, a Judge in  the  Lengthy,  Complex Civil  Division, as well as the Criminal Division. In the Civil Division, Ellen presided over hundreds of trials, including the celebrated civil trial against the government of Cuba under the Helms-Burton Act involving over 10 million dollars in damages. In the criminal division she presided over the trial of the infamous “Spider Man Cat Burglar” and countless Commercial, Professional Malpractice, Products Liability, Employment, and Partnership Dissolution cases.