About your Mediator.
Laura is a smart, passionate, and empathetic mediator at her private practice, Cox Conflict Resolution, focusing on employment, personal injury, and housing cases. Using a skilled blend of facilitative and evaluative styles, Laura relentlessly pursues settlements in line with attorney and client preferences.
As a successful attorney with experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Laura has litigated employment class actions, construction, and police officer cases in California and Washington. In San Francisco, she also clerked for a family law judge and volunteered at a nonprofit to help evicted tenants. She has a calm and positive demeanor, despite handling emotionally difficult or complex cases. As an avid reader of alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") materials, she is well versed in negotiation strategies that will help resolve conflicts.
Laura regularly serves as a settlement officer in employment and personal injury cases through Resolve Law LA and is on the Alameda County Superior Court's Panel of Mediators. Laura is an American Arbitration Association ("AAA") Higginbotham Fellow and is actively using the skills learned in the program to improve people's lives.
In addition to her strong legal skills, Laura is a mom to three children. Motherhood continues to teach her patience, compassion, and humility. She considers every day a blessing. In her spare time, Laura values connecting with her community through yoga, jogging, and a book club, as well as volunteer coaching kids in track and field events. Laura and her husband enjoy their home, family, and friends in the Bay Area, as well as traveling.
Education: Laura received her 40-hour mediation certification from the University of California Davis in 2024. She received her J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 2012 and her B.A. with honors from Stanford University in 2009, where she also studied abroad at Oxford University.
Language: Laura is a native English speaker and speaks Spanish at the intermediate advanced level. She regularly conducts mediations in various languages, including Spanish and Korean, with the aid of translators.
Gilda Turitz, Best Lawyers of America® 2025 Mediation “Lawyer of the Year” in San Francisco
"Some of the employment cases Laura has been assigned to mediate and successfully resolved more accurately could be characterized as commercial disputes and often are quite complex. I believe that in a short period of time, Laura has taken thoughtful, productive and affirmative steps to become involved with the mediation community and pursue opportunities. I highly recommended Laura as a mediator."
Attorney Testimonials
“Laura did an amazing job as a mediator. It was a miracle this case settled."
"Laura made my client feel respected which was important to getting the case resolved. She was very professional and efficient and did not waste time. We got our case resolved in less time than we allotted for the mediation which does not happen frequently."
“Laura was legendary! A pleasure to work with her."
"Laura Cox did an exceptional job as a mediator and helped bridge a contentious dispute between the parties."
Angel Garrett, Shareholder at Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm
“I believe that Laura’s intelligence and poise in various situations is what has led her to become a mediator and that she will thrive. Using her experience as a litigator and what she learned through the mediation programs she attended, Laura mediated numerous cases and successfully settled most of her cases. In several instances, the cases were nuanced and both sides were reluctant to resolve the matter, despite agreeing to a settlement conference. However, Laura was able to help both parties come to an agreement, offering sound arguments and reasons that persuaded each party that it would be better to settle the matter rather than risk litigation. Given that Laura is interested in employment disputes and her success to date in resolving such matters, I recommend her to my colleagues. ”
