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Lisa D. Herzog, JD, MA

Practitioner of Business Law
Academic Lead Student Community Standards
Graziadio Business School

Biography

Lisa Herzog is a licensed California attorney with over 28 years of professional legal experience in the fields of business and real property, employment, contracts and civil rights litigation as well as business entity formation and drafting transactional business agreements. She is a full-time practitioner at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School where she taught for 18 years (starting as an adjunct professor). She is also the Academic Lead for Student Conmunity Standards. 

Ms. Herzog has also taught as an adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount University’s Business School and Pepperdine Caruso School of Law's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Ms. Herzog was a business law litigator in federal and California courts as a partner in Arnold & Herzog.

Federal Published Cases:

Eiden v. Thrifty Payless, Inc.(E.D. Cal. 2005) 407 F. Supp. 2d 1165; Sanford v. Thrifty Payless, Inc. (E.D. Cal. 2005) 2005 WL 2562712; Martinez v. Thrifty Payless, Inc. (E. D. Cal. 2006) 2006 U.S. Dist. Lexis 4442; Hubbard v. Rite Aid Corp. (S.D. Cal. 2005) 2005 WL 5981336; Hubbard v. Rite Aid Corp. (S.D. Cal. 2006) 433 F. Supp. 2d 1150; Dodson v. Albertsons (E.D. Cal. 2008) 2008 WL 298823.

 

 

Education

  • June 2025: Certificate, Mediating the Litigated Case, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
  • June 1997: JD, Pepperdine University School of Law
    Admitted to California State Bar December 1997

  • December 1987: MA, Michigan State University - Labor and Industrial Relations

  • June 1986: BA, Michigan State University - Communications and Psychology

 

 

David E. Woolley and Lisa D. Herzog, Professional Services and Design Professional Agreements, Surveying and Geomatics Engineering: Principles, Technologies, and Applications, Chapter 15 (2022, American Society of Civil Engineers). [peer reviewed]

David E. Woolley and Lisa D. Herzog, MERS: The Unreported Effects of Lost Chain of Title on Real Property Owners, University of California Hastings Business Law Journal, 8 Hastings Bus. L.J. 365 (Summer 2012).

Article received extensive press coverage from CBS News (February 21, 2012); Institutional Risk Analytics–Christopher Whalen (August 2, 2011 and February 14, 2012); The Big Picture – Barry Ritholtz (October 24, 2011); California Lawyer (March 2013); Duke Law Journal–Adam Levitin (December 2013); Daily Show–John Stewart. Also cited in various court opinions, college and law school textbooks and law reviews.

Lisa D. Herzog and Wayne C. Arnold, How Many Lawsuits Does It Take To Be Declared A Vexatious Litigant – Apparently More Than Judge Rafeedie Thought, Orange County Lawyer (June 2006).

 

Courses

  • Legal 653
  • Legal 624
  • Legal 470
  • Legal 684
  • Legal 503
  • Legal 631
  • Legal 616
  • Legal 480