Alison L. Asti, Esq. Joins The McCammon Group

For Immediate Release
February 2, 2010
For more information contact:
Rich Huffman
Direct Dial: (804) 433-2242

Alison L. Asti, an experienced and accomplished transactional lawyer, has joined The McCammon Group, a leading provider of mediation, arbitration and related dispute resolution services in the mid-Atlantic.

Alison spent 17 years at the Maryland Stadium Authority, first as General Counsel and then as Executive Director. She was involved with the negotiation, lobbying, financing, design and construction of over $1 billion in projects throughout  Maryland, including the Baltimore and Ocean City convention centers, the Hippodrome Theatre, Comcast Arena, Unitas Stadium, Ripken Stadium, Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M & T Bank Stadium. Her greatest source of pride is her role in returning the NFL to Baltimore.

Alison is President of Asti Strategic Advisors, LLC, which provides sports and entertainment industry strategic planning, management consulting, design and construction services, feasibility studies, lease negotiations, financing strategies and project advocacy for teams, universities and government. She has spoken at national and international conferences on sports and economic development. From 2008 to 2010, Asti Strategic Advisors provided consulting services as a division of Gordon Feinblatt in Baltimore. Through The McCammon Group, Alison will also provide dispute resolution services to the sports and entertainment industry, as well as commercial matters of every nature and description.

Dedicated to public service, Alison has served as President of the Maryland State Bar, Baltimore City Bar, Baltimore Women’s Bar, Maryland Bar Foundation and Baltimore City Bar Foundation. She is currently a member of the ABA House of Delegates, the Maryland Law School Board of Visitors, the University System of Maryland Foundation Board, and the Anne Arundel County Red Cross Board. She is State Chair of the American Bar Foundation Fellows, President of the Pasadena Horse and Pony Association, and Chair of The Daily Record Editorial Advisory Board.

Alison has been honored as one of Maryland’s “50 Most Influential People,” “Top 100 Women,” “Leaders in Law,” “Super Lawyers” and “Maryland Legal Elite.”

Ms. Astis joins the other professionals of The McCammon Group’s Maryland Panel: 

• Alison L. Asti, Esq. - Baltimore  
• Hon. Dale R. Cathell (Ret.) – Berlin 
• Hope B. Eastman, Esq. – Bethesda  
• Morton A. Faller, Esq. – Rockville
• Patrick C. McKeever, Esq. – Rockville  
• Hon. James L. Ryan (Ret.) – Rockville  
• John E. Sandbower, III, Esq. – Baltimore
• Hon. J. Frederick Sharer (Ret.) - Cumberland 

The McCammon Group provides dispute resolution services including mediation, arbitration, neutral evaluation, special master, private judging, as well as related training and consulting.  It consists of seventy professionals including retired judges and practicing attorneys located throughout Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.  The McCammon Group is committed to the proposition that ADR processes provide individuals, as well as public and private entities, with many substantial benefits including effective and prompt resolution of disputes, self determination, cost savings, timeliness, flexibility, and confidentiality.  For more information, please visit www.McCammonGroup.com.