Lee Hornberger is an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Michigan Employment Relations Commission, National Arbitration Forum, and National Futures Association.

      He is a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Hearing Officer; on the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Hearing Officer list; and a Michigan Civil Rights Commission Hearing Referee.     

      His arbitration training includes AAA: Efficient and Cost Effective Arbitration; AAA Advanced Case Management; AAA Arbitrator I; AAA Labor Arbitrator II; AAA Labor Arbitrator; AAA Safeguarding, Deciding and Writing Awards; AAA Managing Cases Involving Pro Se Parties; FMCS Labor Arbitrator; FINRA Expungement, NASD Securities Arbitrator; NASD Arbitration Chairperson; NASD Expungement; National Academy of Arbitrators Due Process Protocol; NFA Arbitrator; NFA Prehearing Conference; and NYSE Securities Arbitrator.

      His other arbitration experience includes Arbitrator, Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court.

      He has completed the ICLE Family Law Certificate Program cosponsored by the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.

      His publications include "Michigan Arbitration, Case Evaluation, and Mediation Case Law Update," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Spring 2010); "Michigan Family Law Arbitration and Mediation Case Law Update," Michigan Family Law Journal (March 2010); "Recent Developments in Michigan Arbitration, Case Evaluation, and Mediation Law," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Fall 2009); Contributor, Defusing Workplace Time-Bombs: Drafting Employment Agreements and Policies to Prevent Disputes, Avoid Tax Traps, and Settle Cases (ALI-ABA 2008); "The Impact of the Due Process Protocol Principles on Arbitration of Statutory Employment Disputes," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Fall 2007); "Mediation and Arbitration for the Entrepreneur," Your Chamber News (April 2007); "Mediation for the General Practitioner," The General Practitioner (Nov-Dec 2006); "Effective Mediation Preparation," Michigan Lawyers Weekly (Sep 4, 2006); "Reflections on Mediation," The ADR Newsletter (Aug 2006); "Unemployment Compensation Noncontest Provisions in Settlement Agreements," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Spring 2006); "Police and Fire Department Arbitration," The ADR Newsletter (May 2006); "Settlement Agreements (Part II)," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Winter 2006)(co-author with Kiffi Y Ford); "Settlement Agreements (Part I)," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Fall 2005)(co-author with Kiffi Y Ford); "HIPAA and Mental Health Records Disclosure in Mediation," The ADR Newsletter (Oct 2005)(co-author with Robert Tremp); and "Overview of a Pre-Dispute Employment Resolution Process," The ADR Newsletter (Feb 2005).

     His presentations include Recent Developments in Arbitration and Mediation Law, Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association (2010, 2009, and 2008); Arbitration and Mediation: Resolving Disputes Without Litigation, Northwestern Michigan College and Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce (2007); ADR Trends and Tips, GTLA Bar Association (2007); Mediating Employment, Medical Malpractice, and Personal Injury Cases, GTLA Bar Association (2005); and Settlement Agreements, Annual Labor and Employment Law Institute, Institute of Continuing Legal Education (2005). 

     He has served as an arbitrator or hearing officer in arbitrability, attendance, attorney fee, casino, collection, commercial, commission, compensation, construction, constructive discharge, Consumer Protection Act, contract, corporation, discrimination, Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, employment, expungement, Fair Credit Billing Act, fiduciary duty, forum selection, fraud, internet, medical leave, Michigan Uniform Securities Act, negligence, noncompete, personal injury, promissory estoppel, Securities Exchange Act, security, sexual harassment, suitability, technology, termination, Wages and Fringe Benefits Act, and warranty cases.

       He received Conflict Resolution Services' 2009 "Pinnacle Award" and Community Mediation Services' 2009 Certificate of Appreciation.