About Lori
Lori Baitarian combines legal training from Beirut and New York. Her path runs from an undergraduate degree in Beirut to an LL.M. at Columbia. She brings that international perspective into her work as an associate at LaxNeville.
She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from the American University of Beirut in 2014. After spending time in Lebanon, she completed an LL.B. at the Lebanese University Faculty of Law in 2020. She then moved to the United States to pursue graduate study and received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2021. Those milestones map a steady progression from regional legal education to advanced study in the U.S.
Her professional career is centered in New York. She is listed in the New York jurisdiction and practices as an associate at LaxNeville. In that role she has worked on matters that reflect her academic background and on cases that require cross-border sensitivity. The combination of a Lebanese law degree and an American LL.M. gives her familiarity with different legal systems and approaches to dispute resolution.
Baitarian’s memberships underscore an interest in arbitration and dispute resolution. She holds membership in the New York City Bar Association. She also belongs to the New York State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Committee and to the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum. Those affiliations suggest active engagement with the professional community and with forums that address arbitration practice and procedural developments.
Columbia’s LL.M. curriculum and her Lebanese legal training have shaped how she approaches casework. She draws on comparative legal study when preparing submissions and when advising on procedural options. Her background helps when matters raise questions of private international law or when counsel must reconcile different national approaches to the same commercial dispute.
At LaxNeville she serves as an associate on matters that involve arbitration and commercial disputes. She collaborates with colleagues on research, drafting, and strategy while maintaining ties to bar committees and young arbitrator networks. Her current practice centers on arbitration and dispute resolution matters.
