Bio - Lee Kanon Alpert email: lkalpert@alpertbarr.com | download vcard

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Lee Kanon Alpert is an award winning attorney, arbitrator and mediator with more than 35 years of legal experience. His primary practice areas are business and corporate law, administrative and government relations, arbitration and mediation, cable franchising negotiations, commercial, construction and real estate transactional law. He serves as offsite general counsel for a number of businesses.

Mr. Alpert has served as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore and as a private and court-appointed arbitrator, mediator and referee. He helped design the American Arbitration Association’s California Mediation Program and was the first American Arbitration Association (AAA) mediator on the West Coast. In 1984, he received the AAA award as the Outstanding Commercial/Construction Arbitrator of the Year.

Board of Directors

Current:

• Chair, Providence Regional Ministry Board overseeing four hospitals.
• Chair, Genesis L.A., which raises and loans private funds and disperses New Market Tax Credits to assist in the development of blighted urban areas in the Los Angeles Region. 
• Executive Committee, Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA).
• Advisory Board, Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley.
• Advisory Board, Woodbury University, School of Business.

Past:

• President, Board of Commissioners for the Los Angeles City Department of Water and Power.
• Chair, President's University Advisory Board, California State University Northridge

Legal and Government Service:

• Member, Policy Makers Council, American Public Power Association (APPA)
• Past President, San Fernando Valley Bar Association and served in all other elected offices and as chair and a member of numerous committees.
• Past member, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Board of Trustees.
• Past secretary and member of the Judicial Evaluations Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
• Compensated court-appointed independent board member for a national manufacturer of gaming equipment used in Native American operated casinos.
• Past Commissioner, Los Angeles World Airports Board of Airport Commissioners. A proprietary department and City Commission with full oversight of four airports in the Los Angeles region, including Los Angeles International Airport.
• Past President of the City of Los Angeles First Commission on Neighborhood Councils. 
• Past President, City of Los Angeles Board of Building & Safety Commission.
• Past Chair, of overall, 12th Los Angeles City Council District's Citizens Advisory Council.
• Past Chair, Los Angeles County Commission on Judicial Procedures.
• Past Chair, California State Assembly Business Advisory Commission.
• Past Chair, California State Senate Business Advisory Commission.
• Chair of Los Angeles City Advisory Counsel to City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Councilmember Jack Weiss.

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:

• Selected 2012 Super Lawyer
• Tree of Life award from the Jewish National Fund.
• 41st Annual Fernando Award for a lifetime of achievement in volunteerism in the San Fernando Valley.
• Stanley M. Lintz Community Service Award from the San Fernando Valley Bar Association.
• Circle of Life award from the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging for Mr. Alpert and his family's lifelong community involvement.
• 2010 Justice Armand Arabian Leaders in Public Service Award
• 2007 Person of the Year, Metropolitan News Enterprise and Metropolitan News Legal Newspaper, Los Angeles.
• Numerous other awards, honors and recognitions of merit.

Speaker/Author:

• 2010 Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners, panelist, “What Makes the News and Why”
• 2010 Providence Health & Services Governance Conference, panelist on the PH&S Operational Transformation Plan
• 2010 VerdeXchange Green Marketmakers Conference, panelist on the emerging investment opportunities in energy infrastructure
• 2003 Korean Media Conference in Seoul, South Korea, keynote speaker on the digital world in cable television.
• Design Specifications Institution of America, Annual Conference panel member.
• Los Angeles County Bench, Bar and Media Committee Speaker.
• San Fernando Valley Bar Association and many others legal and business organizations.
• Mr. Alpert has authored dozens of articles on numerous issues including arbitration, mediation, real estate, construction, government issues and community matters.
• Executive producer and host of the award-nominated and highly acclaimed daily Los Angeles City wide Time Warner Cable, public affairs program, "Parallax Forum."
• Host of Time Warner Cable Local Edition, CNN.
• Participant and group leader, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business, Executive Program for Not for Profit Leadership and Management.

Education/Court Admissions:

• Attended Wayne State University, received his Bachelors of Science in Education from the University of Southern California, 1971.
• Loyola University School of Law, JD, 1972.
• Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Executive Program Certification in Not for Profit Leadership and Management.
• Admitted to practice in all state courts in California, before the Federal District Court for the Central District, the United States Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and holds special license to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Family:

Mr. Alpert enjoys all travel, most sporting activities and amateur color photography. He is married to his wife of 37 years, resides in Northridge, California with their English Labrador Retriever. He and his wife are the proud parents of two adult sons one of whom is completing his PhD, at the University of Michigan, in Higher Education, on full grant and the other of which after graduating the University of Arizona is now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department.