About
Jack Lewis brings to Lewis Mediation LLC close to four decades of handling all manner of litigation and a successful track record of assessing and managing risk, developing and fostering relationships, and solving problems. It is these experiences and skills that enable Jack to help you resolve your most important and complex dispute. Or your most simple one. Jack brings all this to bear in approaching each mediation with a tailored strategy appropriate for the dispute, believing each dispute is important and unique.
The 28 years Jack spent as in-house litigation counsel for a Fortune 100 energy company gave him a deep foundation for how to assess risk and the importance to litigants of eliminating it. His experience also crystallized for him that there is a satisfying solution to every dispute if the parties are willing to take a moment, consider their own—and their opponents’—risks and motivations, and embrace the possibility of a creative solution. By investing the time to appreciate the parties’ risks and motivations and helping them find common ground, Jack assists sometimes-bitter opponents get to rewarding solutions.
Jack’s decades of litigation practice include devoting the last nine years to managing the litigation for Chevron’s North American Upstream and corporate businesses, where he also was responsible for managing and mentoring a large team of attorneys and other law professionals. In this role, Jack successfully resolved many of the company’s most important and sensitive matters—and plenty of small ones as well. As a result, Jack has a thorough understanding of how lawsuits should be assessed by corporations, whether as plaintiffs or defendants. And equally, Jack also understands individual plaintiffs’ motivations and needs and how to value—and convince others how to value—their cases. Jack is dedicated to helping parties resolve their disputes fairly, and applying his deep experience to lead parties to the right outcome for those involved.
Jack’s mediation practice focuses on energy, commercial, toxic tort, environmental, personal injury, and maritime disputes, as well as select pro bono engagements involving disputes in church and other non-profit organization settings.
Mediation Training & Practice
In 2016 Jack was formally trained as a mediator through the Center for Public Policy in Dispute Resolution, University of Texas Law School, and in 2018 and 2019 he obtained additional training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. Jack is a volunteer mediator at the Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center in Conroe, TX , the Harris County Dispute Resolution Center in Houston, TX and the Anglican Church of North America. Currently Jack serves as Vice-Chair and General Counsel of the Board of Montgomery County’s Dispute Resolution Center.