Lori Sanford
Lori Sanford, Esq. M.B.A., is a full-time attorney neutral working in the field of arbitration and mediation. Lori is an American Arbitration Association Arbitrator serving on Commercial and Consumer Panels. Lori has also served as an Arbitrator on cases involving healthcare payor-payee disputes, employment disputes and mass arbitration. Lori also is an arbitrator and mediator for Resolute Systems, LLC. Lori serves on mediation panels for the California Association of Realtors, Riverside County Superior Court, Riverside County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Service, American Arbitration Association Consumer Mediation Panel, and the American Arbitration Association California Lemon Law Mediation Panel.
Lori is highly regarded for her ability to resolve disputes through advanced case preparation, enthusiasm, a collaborative approach, and strong communication skills. Her dedication ensures resolutions that are efficient, economical, and fair. As an experienced arbitration and mediation professional, Lori has conducted several hundred arbitrations and mediations. Ms. Sanford has served as the panel chair of a three-arbitrator panel on several consumer cases including a matter in which there was a three-day hearing and she prepared the Award on behalf of the Panel. She also served on a three arbitrator panel in a complex commercial case and on several healthcare payor-payee disputes.
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With experience as a trial attorney in Los Angeles and New York, and as a full-time neutral since 2009, Lori has handled a wide range of civil cases across numerous subject areas, including:
- Business and Commercial: Disputes involving breach of contract, transportation carriers, business ownership, property issues, and conversion.
- Financial Services: Breach of financial agreements, accounting and other billing disputes, and collections.
- Consumer: Disputes regarding interpretation of terms of service or terms of use agreements, retail sales installment contracts, lemon law, rideshare apps, solar installation, cryptocurrency, and mass arbitrations with vehicle manufacturers and delivery services.
- Healthcare Industry: Payor-payee disputes, network provider agreements, emergency injunctive requests to remain in-network, equipment purchases, and business asset disposition.
- Employment: Wage and hour disputes, misclassification, discrimination, retaliation.
- Personal Injury: Private arbitration of uninsured/underinsured motorist claims, motor vehicle accidents, slip-and-falls, elder abuse, professional liability (dental, legal, medical malpractice), dog bites, premises liability, property damage, and wrongful death.
- Real Estate: Residential purchase agreements, failure to disclose, mold, nuisance, construction defects, contractor claims, HOA disputes, and home inspections.
Lori is an active member of the Inn of Court where she serves as a board member and team leader in an organization that promotes civility between the bench and bar. She has led a community outreach program for the last two years which brings a panel of judges and attorneys to a local middle school allowing these students to have their first positive interaction with the law. Lori was active with her local bar association (the Desert Bar Association) where she served as Bar President (2022-2023), Board trustee (2017-2024), Mediation Chair (2017-2024) and Fee Arbitration Chair (2017-2020). As the mediation chair, Lori administered the First Friday Voluntary Settlement Conference program for the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside for 15 years (2009-2024). Lori continues to volunteer for Court settlement days.
Lori has served as an adjunct professor at La Sierra University’s Zapara School of Business, teaching business law to medical professionals in an MBA program at Eisenhower Medical Center, where she also earned her own MBA with a specialization in healthcare management.
