About Us

GARY BACIO

Gary A. Bacio is a Partner with the Firm of Lynberg & Watkins, representing both public and private entities in Insurance and Employment Defense matters. He began his legal career representing individuals in personal injury and employment matters. After a few years he joined the Law Office of Daniel P. Aguilera as a litigator defending private and public entities in insurance and related matters. That office soon became Aguilera & Bacio as Gary continued defending public entities and began trying cases throughout Los Angeles County. In 1996 he formed the Law Office of Gary A. Bacio in the San Gabriel Valley where he practiced until joining Lynberg & Watkins. For many years Gary served on the County of Los Angeles Risk Management Advisory Committee advising the County as to all aspects of Risk and Loss Management. He has also served as a Judge Pro Tem and as a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Gary graduated from Loyola Law School and earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA.

MERCEDES CRUZ

Mercedes Cruz was admitted to the California State Bar in 1985 after graduating from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Ms. Cruz is an APLC Partner in the law firm of Leal &Trejo . Ms. Cruz specializes in defending and advising private and public entities in all aspects of employment law, with a special emphasis in dispute resolution and prevention. Ms. Cruz has extensive experience in employment litigation in court as well as state and federal administrative agencies. Her areas of concentration include oversight, internal investigations, advising employers on terminations, discipline, complying with state and federal employment laws, and training and formulation of policy. Ms. Cruz also defends employers in litigation involving wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, employment discrimination, and related tort actions. In her thirty-seven years of practice, Ms. Cruz has conducted and overseen hundreds of investigations in both the public and private sectors and has assisted hundreds of employers in drafting their policies and procedures, as well as in resolving employee claims and disputes. Ms. Cruz has also trained thousands of employees, including law enforcement personnel, in the prevention of harassment and discrimination in the workplace and related employment topics.  Ms. Cruz has sat on the Los Angeles County Equity Oversight Panel(“CEOP”) since its inception in 2010 and prior to that the Sheriff's Department Equity Oversight Panel,(“EOP”) since 2004. She also served as a consultant to the Executive Director of the CEOP and has served as a past Chair for the EOP.

GAIL GLICK

Gail Glick is a mediator, arbitrator, and workplace investigator. Gail litigated disputes for 26 years -- from 1994 through 2020, and she spent almost her entire legal career representing parties in employment law disputes. For six of the first eight years of her career, she litigated employment law disputes and assisted employers in the prevention of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation through trainings and investigations for various clients at the Musick, Peeler firm in downtown Los Angeles. In her work on the employees’ side, she worked as a solo practitioner, mediator, and investigator from mid-2002 through mid-2009. She was a founding partner of Alexander Krakow + Glick LLP (now known as Alexander Morrison + Fehr LLP) which, from 2009 through 2020, represented both public and private entity employees in all aspects of employment law disputes, resolutions, and trials. Gail’s balance of plaintiffs’ and defense work over her career uniquely qualifies her to mediate, arbitrate, and investigate issues for a diverse group of employers and employees. Gail is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is a Lecturer in Law at USC Gould School of Law, teaching employment dispute resolution. She is a Vice President on the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Legal Center, a former Chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s ("LACBA") Labor and Employment Law Section (2018-2019), and a former co-chair of the ABA’s Technology Symposium in Labor and Employment Law. She lectures frequently on employment law issues and alternative dispute resolution. Gail received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1994 and her B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College in 1991. She has been named a “Rising Star” or “Super Lawyer” by Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine every year since 2009, and she was one of Lawdragon's 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in 2018 and 2019.

JACQUELINE J. HARDING

Jacqueline J. Harding is well regarded for her service as chair of Wilson Elser's Pro Bono Committee and her involvement in professional activities devoted to the advancement of women and minority attorneys. Jackie's law practice focuses on labor and employment law in addition to product liability, business and health care litigation. In her practice, Jackie represents clients in state and federal courts, arbitrations, mediations, civil service commission hearings, EEOC/DFEH administrative hearings, and labor commission and OSHA hearings. She has litigated several class action lawsuits brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Prior to joining Wilson Elser, Jackie worked in the Labor Relations Department at The Walt Disney Company, an American multinational diversified mass media company. Before becoming a lawyer, she was a television producer for 13 years, including producing an Emmy award-winning weekly magazine series in Chicago for a major network. In Los Angeles, she and her husband owned several businesses, including two restaurants in a national chain.

While experienced in litigation and workplace consultation, her skills in communicating effectively to various constituencies and resolving problems have also garnered favorable results for clients. They particularly appreciate her ability to understand the facts and nuances of cases, which helps to avoid unnecessary litigation, and prevent future workplace problems.

RICHARD D. KLINGER

Richard Klinger has served as Hearing Officer for the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission and a Mediator for the Human Resources Department Mediation Program. He has conducted hundreds of mediations for the Los Angeles Superior Court system and participates in the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Attorney-Client Mediation and Arbitration Services Program. Previously, in Montana, Mr. Klinger served as Asst. Attorney-General, designated as Montana Environmental Affairs Legal Officer. Mr. Klinger's experience extends to the entertainment industry as well, where he served as Vice President of Programming and Business Affairs for RCA Video and President of King World's Home Entertainment Division. His unique diversity of legal, mediation, and executive experience gives him special perspective and understanding in dealing with conflict in the workplace environment. And, his prior experience with L.A. County has imparted a solid knowledge of the County's policies and culture. Mr. Klinger received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

CONSTANCE KOMOROSKI

Constance Komoroski is an attorney-mediator specializing in emotionally charged disputes, including wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, and police/excessive force matters, with additional expertise in labor, probate, personal injury, collections, and real estate. Since 2012, Ms. Komoroski has served as an Administrative Law Judge Pro Tem assigned to mediations for the State of California, Office of Administrative Hearings, Special Education Division. From 2008 – 2016, Ms. Komoroski was the contract Hearing Officer for taxicab driver disciplinary hearings, LAX, Ground Transportation. A certified contract EEO investigator since 2009, Ms. Komoroski does EEO employment investigations for several federal agencies, and mediates EEO complaints through a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Ms. Komoroski was an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles from 1989 – 2005. As an AUSA, Ms. Komoroski litigated claims alleging race and gender discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environment, disability discrimination and failure to accommodate, and retaliation. Ms. Komoroski also litigated civil rights, immigration, Fair Housing, FOIA, and civil fraud cases. Federal clients included the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, U.S. Postal Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, CIS/ICE (former INS), Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, and Bureau of Prisons.

Ms. Komoroski previously served as a panel mediator for the U.S. District Court, the Los Angeles and Orange County Superior Courts, and the California 2nd District Court of Appeals, in addition to the EEOC in Los Angeles. Ms. Komoroski served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Mediation Association from 2007 – 2010. In that capacity, Ms. Komoroski presented and moderated CLE panels that included Mediating Employment Disputes with Public Sector Employers, and Women in Mediation.

A graduate of Loyola Law School, Ms. Komoroski clerked for the Honorable Dzintra R. Janavs (retired). As a law clerk in the zoning and land use sections of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Ms. Komoroski assisted with legislation related to handicap access.

MICHAEL LEB

Michael H. Leb, Esq. has been a mediator and arbitrator for over ten years. Before becoming a neutral, Michael practiced law at Latham & Watkins, worked on employment-law matters in-house at two Fortune 50 companies, and represented plaintiffs in employment-law matters at a trial boutique and as a solo practitioner. As Wal-Mart's Senior Vice President of People, Michael oversaw the human resource compliance function and its internal complaint resolution procedure to which over 1 million associates had access. Prior to that, as Safeway's Vice President of Labor Relations, he oversaw the company's internal grievance procedure applicable to over 100,000 employees. Michael is a cum laude graduate of both Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School. He is an avid cyclist, scuba diver and golfer. Michael also speaks several foreign languages. Michael and his wife, Nancy, live in Pasadena with their beagle, Otis.

ANGELA REDDOCK WRIGHT

Named a “Top California Employment Lawyer” by the Daily Journal, and one of Los Angeles’ “Most Influential Minority and Women Attorneys” by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Angela J. Reddock-Wright is the Founding and Managing Partner of the Reddock Law Group. A practicing attorney for nearly twenty-one (22) years, and a former employment and labor law litigator for more than fifteen (15) years, Angela’s practice now focuses on the mediation, arbitration and investigation of workplace disputes. As a part of her investigation practice, she is retained by public and private sector employers to conduct independent and neutral investigations of workplace harassment, discrimination and other claims.

Angela is the President-Elect of the Southern California Mediation Association, and is a member of the distinguished panel of arbitrators and mediators for the American Arbitration Association. She is a Member of the Los Angeles County Equity Oversight Panel, an independent oversight body comprised of employment law experts that advises the County on equity investigations.

Angela has extensive training in the area of workplace investigations, and holds certificates from the Association of Workplace Investigators ("AWI-CH"), and T9 Mastered for Title IX investigations involving sexual harassment and sexual assault on college campuses. Angela also is a frequent speaker and trainer on preventing sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, along with other workplace topics.

Angela is a graduate of UCLA School of Law, Amherst College, and the Coro Foundation Fellowship in Public Policy and Public Affairs. She received her training as a mediator from the Strauss Institute at the Pepperdine University School of Law.

RONALD WILSON

Ronald N. Wilson is a native of Los Angeles, California. He has practiced law in California for over 44 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1970. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1973. After graduation from law school, he worked two years as a corporate/litigation attorney for the Beverly Hills law firm Ervin, Cohen & Jessup. In 1975 Mr. Wilson co- founded the law firm of Wilson & Becks in Los Angeles. During his tenure at Wilson & Becks, Mr. Wilson practiced civil litigation representing numerous public entities, private corporations and individuals with a mixture of defense and plaintiff’s cases in the fields of employment law, products liability, personal injury, real estate, public finance, and commercial litigation. Mr. Wilson has tried numerous jury trials in the federal and state courts. Since 1998 Mr. Wilson has focused his solo practice on employment and real estate matters.

ROBERTA M. YANG

Roberta M. Yang has an active corporate law practice in Los Angeles, California, and consults with senior management (CEO, President, COO, Executive Director, and HR) of privately-held companies and large public agencies who are faced with a myriad of day-to-day and long-term challenges in their businesses. Her services include advice on transactions, corporate governance, employment law including workplace and Title IX investigations, compliance and regulatory issues, strategic planning, mediation and resolution of organizational conflicts, and business continuity/contingency planning.

Roberta offers clear-headed, objective analyses of the challenges and executive concerns, and in consultation with the client, assists management in identifying priorities, clarifying objectives, and developing action steps for executive implementation and avoidance of legal issues.

Ms. Yang has a unique professional background, having herself been a member of the C-Suite and other senior executive positions in both the public and private sectors.

Most recently, Roberta served as General Counsel of a $300M+ consortium of global logistics companies where she supported and advised the principals on strategies from legal, human resources, and bottom line perspectives. She previously served as Los Angeles Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Homeland Security on and during 9/11, representing the City’s interests in emergency preparedness and homeland security policies at the local and national level. As Deputy Mayor, she was charged with oversight of Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, and Emergency Preparedness Department.

Prior to serving as Deputy Mayor, Roberta worked as the Deputy Chief Trial Counsel for the State Bar of California, managing the day to day operations of the prosecutors and investigators assigned to attorney misconduct cases where violations of ethics and professional responsibility standards were charged. She also worked at the law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe on complex litigation matters involving accountant liability, commercial litigation, and environmental issues, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill matter.

Ms. Yang has substantial trial experience as Special Attorney, Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force, U.S. Department of Justice, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney [Criminal Division] in Houston, Texas prior to moving to Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Rice University and University of Houston Law Center.