About
Lindsey Bayman, is a Los Angeles-based mediator with a high success rate in resolving employment cases under both State and Federal Law. These include claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, as well as wage and hour matters (both individual and class / PAGA actions).
Lindsey has a professional background that has also enabled her to effectively mediate sexual assault cases, personal injury, entertainment-industry, related conflicts and general business disputes.
Lindsey has been recently reviewed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal by attorneys she has mediated with:*
“She had a focused plan for how she wanted to go about discussing the case”
“If she has a different view of the case than you and your client, she’ll take a very soft, diplomatic approach to it”
“She’s not too forceful in terms of alienating people or pushing people away…She’s just really interested in getting a case resolved.”
“She’s very good at allowing clients to feel as though they’ve been heard”
“It was clear she spent a great deal of time on the case before mediation”
“Persuasive but not confrontational”
“She was able to explain the issues in a way that my client could grasp them but also at the same time was empathetic”
Lindsey began her career as a lawyer at Dentons in London and then Los Angeles, ultimately moving in-house to work at major media companies. She spent a decade at Paramount Pictures as Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Business Affairs—a job that involved negotiations that on any given day could range between something as simple as the per diem for Betty White’s limo driver to complex multi-million dollar deals for A-list talent. Constant, high-stakes negotiations honed Lindsey’s awareness of situational dynamics and leverage, sharpened her ability to read cues and negotiation strategies in real time, and helped develop trouble-shooting tactics—skills she draws on heavily in her role as a mediator.
Working in the entertainment industry also impressed upon Lindsey that the human side of conflict can sometimes be as important as the legal side. She is adept at working in environments where when emotions run high. She finds this to be critical in dealing with individual plaintiff cases, especially those involving sexual assault, harassment claims or other highly sensitive matters.
During her career as an executive in the entertainment industry, Lindsey supervised significant litigation, bridging her business background with a first-hand understanding of the cadence, pressures, and issues that drive litigated cases. That perspective deepened when she was recruited to join the plaintiff’s trial team for claims arising from the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas-well blowout—work that earned her a finalist spot for Consumer Attorneys of California’s 2022 Consumer Attorney of the Year.
Lindsey’s mediation practice is focused on obtaining results.
Lindsey Bayman is a California- and U.K.–licensed attorney and holds an LLB in Law from King’s College, London and an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from USC Gould School of Law. In addition to her employment mediation practice, she regularly mediates sexual assault cases, personal injury cases, and entertainment industry/intellectual property related disputes. She also serves on the mediation panels of the United States District Court, Central District, California, and the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
*All quotes from lawyers interviewed by the Daily Journal Verdicts and Settlements, Friday, March 8, 2024, which can be downloaded from the home page.