Jacqueline Harding, Esq.

Jacqueline J. Harding, Esq. is an employment mediator with approximately 30 years of civil litigation and settlement experience handling complex workplace disputes. A longtime partner at Wilson Elser, where she practiced for more than two decades, Ms. Harding has extensive experience litigating, evaluating, trying, and resolving employment matters involving discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault, retaliation, hostile work environment, wrongful and constructive termination, whistleblower claims, wage and hour class actions and PAGA matters, employment contracts, Equal Pay Act claims, disability law, and FMLA, CFRA and other leave disputes.

Ms. Harding approaches mediation with the perspective of a seasoned trial lawyer and the temperament of a problem solver. She is thoughtful, well prepared, calm under pressure and deliberate in forming conclusions. After decades of advocating for clients in adversarial litigation, she became increasingly drawn to dispute resolution as her definition of a successful outcome evolved. Rather than viewing success solely in terms of obtaining the best possible result for one side, she values outcomes that make practical sense for everyone at the table and allow parties to move forward without requiring one side to defeat the other.