ABOUT LISA REPPETO
Lisa has been a certified mediator since 2018 and has served on the Mississippi Bar Executive Committees for the Real Estate Section and the ADR Section. She co-chaired mediator training and recertification CLEs from 2023 to 2025 — helping to shape the next generation of neutral professionals in Mississippi.
Lisa is an experienced litigator in a broad range of disputes, including:
- Product liability, premises liability, and personal injury
- Estate disputes
- Consumer transactions
- Predatory lending
- Intra-corporate disputes
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Commercial and transactional litigation
- Permitting and regulatory appeals
- Section 1983 and Mississippi Tort Claims Act litigation
- Zoning and land use
- Real estate disputes
- Eminent domain
- Constitutional litigation
- Appellate practice
Lisa’s experience goes beyond the courtroom. Before law school, she gained significant business experience as a licensed property and casualty insurance agent and served as Director of Environmental Services for a Gulf Coast hospital. This practical, real-world perspective helps her understand the commercial and personal interests behind every dispute.
Lisa’s approach is grounded in preparation, neutrality, and persistence. As she wrote in her 2023 article for the Mississippi Lawyer, “Missed Opportunity: Don’t Let Lack of Preparation Undermine Your Mediation,” she believes that thorough preparation is the cornerstone of a successful mediation. Parties can expect a mediator who:
- Reviews all materials carefully before the session
- Listens actively to understand each side’s core interests
- Facilitates candid, productive dialogue
- Uses her litigation background to test assumptions and reality-check positions
- Works tirelessly to find common ground
As an arbitrator, she will carefully consider and analyze the law and the evidence to reach a decision that is fair to all parties.
Areas of Practice
- Product liability, premises liability, and personal injury
- Estate disputes
- Consumer transactions
- Predatory lending
- Intra-corporate disputes
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Commercial and transactional litigation
- Permitting and regulatory appeals
- Section 1983 and Mississippi Tort Claims Act litigation
- Zoning and land use
- Real estate disputes
- Eminent domain
- Constitutional litigation
- Appellate practice
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “Missed Opportunity: Don’t Let Lack of Preparation Undermine Your Mediation,” Mississippi Lawyer, Spring 2023
- “Strict Liability and Fraud – the Odd Couple of Products Liability Litigation,” American Bar Association, 14th Annual Women in Products Liability Regional Workshop, November 14, 2013
- “Clearly Defined Roles are Key to Green Success,” The Mississippi Business Journal, July 27, 2009
- “Green Building Development in Mississippi: Issues on the Horizon,” The Mississippi College Law Review, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2009
- “Silencing the Voice of the Local Small Business,” Delta Business Journal, August 2005
- “Real Estate Law: Recent Developments and Issues on the Horizon,” University of Mississippi Continuing Legal Education Current Issues in Foreclosure/Real Estate, May 17, 2013
- Numerous presentations for Lorman and Half Moon CLE programs on eminent domain, zoning and land use, adverse possession, real estate litigation, and ethics
Education
University of Mississippi School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2000
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude
- Ranked sixth in class, top five percent
- Winner – Best Oral Advocate, Fall 1998 Moot Court Board Competition
- Editor-In-Chief, Journal of National Security Law
- Outstanding Student Award: Constitutional Law II, National Security Law, Federal Trial Practice
- Teacher’s Assistant, Academic Excellence Program – Civil Procedure
Millsaps College – Else School of Management, Bachelor of Business Administration, 1987
- Graded Outstanding in comprehensive examination required for graduation
Notable Cases and Opinions
- Ainsworth v. Moffett Engineering, Ltd., 595 Fed. Appx. 325 (5th Cir. 2014)
- The Lamar Company, LLC v. City of Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Cause No. 1:08 CV 00021
- Issaquena and Warren Counties Land Company, LLC v. Warren County, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Cause No. 5:07 CV 106
- Mississippi Power Company v. Water and Power Technologies, Inc., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Cause No. 1:03 CV 763
- White v. City of Starkville, 283 So. 3d 189 (Miss. 2019)
- Mississippi Transp. Comm’n v. United Assets, LLC, 188 So. 3d 508 (Miss. 2016)
- St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co. v. Merchants & Marine Bank, 882 So. 2d 766 (Miss. 2004)
- Morf v. North Central Mississippi Board of Realtors, Inc., 27 So. 3d 1188 (Miss. App. 2009)
- Bank of Holly Springs v. Puryear for and on Behalf of Estate of Brown, 309 So. 3d 598 (Miss. App. 2020)
- Martin v. Mississippi Transportation Comm’n, 953 So. 2d 1163 (Miss. App. 2007)
- Eller Media Co. v. City of Memphis, 2008 WL 5330431 (Tenn. App. 2008)