Laila Ollapally is the Founder and Senior Mediator at CAMP Arbitration & Mediation Practice. She practiced in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Karnataka for nearly 30 years and entered the field of mediation in 2007. She was the founding coordinator of the Bangalore Mediation Centre (BMC), a court annexed mediation programme at the High Court of Karnataka.

She has been trained in mediation at the Karnataka High Court and did advanced training at Harvard, Stanford and Pepperdine Law Schools. She is specially trained to mediate family business disputes after undergoing advanced training with Harvard professor, Dana Curtis, on ‘Mediating with Families’.

She has mediated over 600 complex civil and commercial disputes covering a wide range of subjects including commercial, family business, inheritance, and other family settlements. She is on the panel of Mediators at Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC), American Arbitration Association (AAA- ICDR) and is a Board member at the International Mediation Institute (IMI).

She was nominated to ‘The International Who’s Who Legal’ of Commercial Mediation 2019 and as a Global Leader in Mediation for 2020. In 2011, she was awarded the Weinstein Fellowship, the prestigious international fellowship for ADR professionals.

She was a member of the committee constituted by the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (MCPC) of the Supreme Court of India, to make recommendations for a draft legislation for mediation in India. She was appointed by the Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of Legal Affairs, Government of India, to be a member of the working committee for drafting the rules and standards for mediation in India.