Sally Griffith Cimini
Partner
Sally Griffith Cimini is a Partner in Leech Tishman’s Litigation Practice Group, where she leads the Alternative Dispute Resolution Group. She is also a member of the Employment & Labor Practice Group, where she leads the Workplace Investigation and Discipline Group. Sally is based in the Pittsburgh office, and is highly regarded for her experience in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and employment and labor law.
Sally is a former Management Committee member and former Chair of the Employment & Labor Group, where she demonstrated her strong leadership skills as a well-respected consensus builder and collaborator.
Sally is well-known in the field of alternative dispute resolution, particularly as a mediator, arbitrator and early neutral evaluator, and has been lauded by members of the bar for her work in the field of alternative dispute resolution. She was named Pittsburgh Mediator of the Year in 2021, 2018 and 2016. In May 2014, the Pennsylvania Bar Association awarded her its annual Sir Francis Bacon Dispute Resolution Award in recognition and appreciation for her pioneering efforts to develop and enhance mediation throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is a Board member and the past president of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania (MCWP), and for many years chaired the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s state-wide Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Sally initiated MCWP’s bi-monthly mediation education roundtable program and pioneered its annual Conflict Resolution Day program. For many years, she has served as a planner of the Allegheny Bar Association’s annual Kaplan Lecture on Conflict Resolution.
