Marc Lassman is an attorney and international rule of law expert with more than three decades of legal and leadership experience, including over 18 years directing complex donor funded justice sector reform programs across Europe and Eurasia. Licensed to practice law in Colorado since 1989, he has served as Chief of Party and senior advisor on multi-million-dollar initiatives in Serbia, Armenia, Montenegro, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Russia, and Oman, working extensively with courts, ministries of justice, bar associations, prosecutors, universities, civil society organizations, and international institutions. His expertise spans judicial reform, court administration, anti-corruption, legal aid, access to justice, legal education, trial advocacy, and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and ADR system development.

In addition to his international development work, he has practiced civil and criminal litigation as a defense attorney and public defender in the United States, taught American law and legal writing in Japan, and advised senior Japanese executives on international business communication and strategy.

He holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado, an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Nottingham, mediation training certificates from Harvard extension and Sage Mediation (Singapore), including a mediation certification, and combines substantial cross-cultural leadership experience with practical courtroom, policy, and mediation-related expertise.