Audrey J. Lee

Audrey is a Lecturer on Law teaching Mediation and Diversity & Dispute Resolution at Harvard Law School. Since 2016, she has also served as affiliate faculty for the Program on Negotiation at HLS, currently as a lead faculty for the week-long Harvard Mediation Intensive.
Outside of teaching, Audrey is a Senior Mediator at Boston Law Collaborative, LLC and a founding principal of Perspectiva LLC. As a mediator, Audrey specializes in mediating workplace, employment, organizational, harassment, and discrimination disputes. Previously, she has served as a mediator for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and as a panel mediator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In her mediations, Audrey draws on her experience as a consultant for the Cambridge, MA-based organization Essential Partners to bring a dialogue-centered approach to create spaces conducive to constructive conversation. In 2021, Audrey was selected for inclusion in Boston Magazine’s inaugural list of “Top Lawyers” (Mediators).

In her consulting practice, Audrey works with clients to increase their effectiveness in difficult workplace conversations and negotiations. Her legal clients include law firms such as Jenner & Block LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP and government agencies including the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. In recognition of her professional development work with lawyers, Audrey was invited in 2018 to become a Trusted Advisor for the Professional Development Consortium, the association for individuals responsible for the professional development of lawyers at law firms, law schools, government agencies, and corporations. Previously, Audrey taught Negotiation courses as Adjunct Faculty at Northwestern University School of Law, and DePaul University College of Law.

As a mediator and conflict management consultant, Audrey has worked with clients including lawyers at Am Law 100 firms, mediators at the Australian Fair Work Commission, and musicians at the League of American Orchestras. She has been featured in Harvard Business Review’s “Insights” series on Leadership and Managing People and in the BBC Capital’s Work Ethic column, and her writing on mediation and dispute resolution has appeared in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, and ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine, among other publications. Audrey is also the author of Navigating Conflict at Work: A Guide to Workplace Mediation (2026).

Outside of mediating and teaching, Audrey is active in community and professional associations. She is a Past President of the Association for Conflict Resolution Chicago Chapter and a past Editorial Board member of the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine. In her community, she is a Board Member of the Brookline Education Foundation and a past member of her children’s School Site Council, an advisory board consisting of parents, teachers, and school leadership.

Previously, Audrey practiced law as an intellectual property and litigation attorney at Winston & Strawn in Chicago and Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Additional Information

Representative Publications

• “Implicit Bias in Mediation,” 25 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 167 (Spring 2020). 
• "Negotiating Part-Time Work at Elite Law Firms," 6 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal 405 (2006).
• "Unconscious Bias Theory in Employment Discrimination Litigation," 40 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 481 (2005).