Member Spotlight

Lydia is a licensed attorney and mediator in California and New York, and through the London-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), an internationally certified arbitrator in the 172 countries participating in the New York Convention. She serves as the Dean of Academic Success at Abraham Lincoln University School of Law, and enjoys helping parties resolve legal challenges as a business, employment, real property, and insurance law mediator with the Mediation Center of Los Angeles, LACBA Family Law daily settlement officer, and LACBA ACMAS arbitrator. Ms. Liberio has experience as an administrative law judge, in-house counsel, criminologist, law school/business school curriculum designer and professor of more than 150 unique courses. She holds an LLM in Dispute Resolution from Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, a JD from Loyola Law School, an MBA in HR from Daniel Webster College, and a BA and MA coursework in Criminology from the University of California, Irvine.

Ms. Liberio enjoys volunteering as the Secretary of the CLA Business Law Section Executive Committee, after chairing the Business Law Section’s Standing Litigation Committee for several years. She is passionate about the value of BLS membership, including collaboration on inspiring CLE panels, opportunities for publication and legislative impact, and meeting other amazing members of our BLS section. In addition to the BLS, Ms. Liberio is a Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) trustee, and recently joined the Counsel for Justice board as a liaison to LACBA, the non-profit that runs the veterans, domestic violence and immigration law clinics in Los Angeles County. In addition, she serves at the Beverly Hills Bar Foundation secretary, as the vice chair of the Rule of Law writing competition, and the American Bar Association affiliate, the National Conference of Bar Presidents’ Executive Council, vice chair to the Metro Bar Caucus/ Committee. Every year, she looks forward to serving as the legal educators co-chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution section’s Annual Spring Conference. Recently, Ms. Liberio was honored as a LACBA Women’s History Month Trailblazer in 2024 and CIArb North American Branch featured member arbitrator for October 2025.