Claudia Hagadus Long, Esq.

Claudia Hagadus Long, Esq. is one of the leading alternative dispute resolution neutrals in the Bay Area. She specializes in resolving disputes involving:

• Employment: Central to Ms. Long’s mediation practice is the humane, culturally informed and economical resolution of employer-employee disputes, including Civil Rights claims, discrimination claims involving race, national origin and language, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, age and disability issues; ADA claims, leave/FMLA/CIFRA matters, and wrongful termination. She mediated or supervised the mediation of over 500 disputes with the State of California Department of Fair Employment & Housing.
• Probate, Trusts & Estates: In an area requiring both compassion and intense practicality, Ms. Long has a long-established mediation practice resolving the disputes between family members as heirs, claims of elder abuse, and claims of outsiders, all handled with an understanding of the needs of the parties.
• Real Estate & Banking: In one of the most common arenas of mediation, Ms. Long has extensive experience with the claims of buyers, sellers and agents in the resolution of both mandatory pre-litigation concerns and mid-lawsuit solutions. She has long and vast experience with banks and other lending institutions regarding mortgage claims, claims of wrongful foreclosure, illegal lending practices, and holdover evictions.
• Wage & Hour: This is a popular topic for mediation, and Ms. Long has mediated overtime, rest and meal breaks as well as independent-contractor/employee claims to satisfactory conclusion.
• Business: Long has helped craft equitable partnership dissolutions, and mediated inter-business disputes, large collection matters, sensitive issues of management relations, all with an eye to prompt and satisfactory results.