Debra Bogaards, Esq.

Debra Bogaards, Esq. has served as a private mediator for over five years, as well as a mandatory settlement conference officer in San Francisco for over five years and in Marin County for almost 30 years. She has successfully mediated hundreds of cases with a consistent settlement rate well above 98%. Ms. Bogaards has an advantage and presents a clear balanced point of view, having represented both plaintiffs and defendants in her career.

Ms. Bogaards’ subject matter expertise includes matters brought as an individual as well as multi-party actions covering the full range of employment matters; catastrophic injury and wrongful death; toxic tort; sexual abuse, Uber cases, as well as landlord-tenant disputes including wrongful eviction and breach of the covenant of habitability, such as mold and carbon-monoxide exposure.

In terms of employment matters, Ms. Bogaards has handled a wide array of issues such as wage and hour, discrimination (all protected classes, including maternity leave, age, race, disability accommodation, sexual harassment), retaliation, wrongful termination, whistleblowing, defamation, fraud and reductions in work force.

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