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Deborah Gage Haude, Esq.
Contact Information
Deborah Stewart
71 S. Wacker Drive Suite 2400 Chicago, IL 60606
T: 312-655-9192
F: 312-655-0644
General Biography
Practice Areas
Business Commercial
Class Action and Mass Tort
Employment
Training Teaching
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education
Deborah Haude, Esq. mediates and arbitrates single plaintiff, class action and collective claims. She works with parties, counsel and insurers to reach pragmatic solutions to problems raised in mediation and to efficiently manage arbitration processes. Ms. Haude handles a full range of employment, discrimination, wage and hour, and compensation and benefit disputes, as well as commercial disputes and non-profit board matters.
Counsel and parties compliment her ability to sort through complex factual and legal problems, manage challenging emotional situations in a positive way, and her perseverance in working with clients to find solutions.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
Ms. Haude has been a full-time mediator and arbitrator since 2003, bringing more than 20 years of experience to her JAMS practice. She has extensive experience in mediating, arbitrating and adjudicating claims in the areas of employment, class action and business commercial disputes.
Representative Matters
Business/Commercial/Boards of Directors
Mediated multi-party commercial dispute with multiple claims involving financing arrangements for facilities and equipment
Arbitrated interim relief in portion of multi-party unfair competition action
Co-mediated complex multi-party construction claims involving bankruptcy and insurance issues, as well as more straightforward construction-related disputes
Co-mediated complex multi-party intellectual property matter with insurance and bankruptcy issues
Mediated not-for-profit board matters, including governance disputes, Board/Executive disputes, and separation of executive directors
Arbitrator in cases involving credit cards, including unpaid balances, loan interest issues and alleged tort and state law violations
Class Action and Mass Tort
Special Master in the settlement of a nationwide discrimination class action, including determining eligibility, adjudicating claims, and later monitoring
Class A Claims Adjudicator in the settlement of a class action in which a large group of African-American farmers alleged that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had discriminated against them with respect to government lending practices
Mediator and arbitrator in a nationwide racial discrimination class action case alleging failure to promote
Mediator and arbitrator in state wage and hour class action, and various FLSA or FLSA/state law wage and hour hybrid collective actions involving claims of misclassification, off the clock work, and related issues
Employment/Employment Contracts/Discrimination/Compensation and Benefits
Mediated claims involving start-up, active, and contracting businesses for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, retaliatory discharge and various workplace torts
Mediated separations of professionals, including in-house counsel, law firm associate, and principal of professional firm
Mediated age, disability, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, and racial and sexual harassment claims under ADA, ADEA, OWBPA, ERISA, Title VII, PDA, EPA, §1981, and state law of employees in a variety of businesses and non-profit contexts. Highly emotional sessions sometimes included spouse, significant other, parent and/or separate counsel for supervisor or franchisor
Arbitrator in claims involving breach of contract, whistleblowing, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, constructive discharge, common law and statutory retaliatory discharge, as well as state and federal law claims of disability discrimination, gender discrimination, national origin discrimination, race discrimination, and racial and sexual harassment in the automotive, restaurant, financial services, transportation, warehousing, and healthcare industries
Arbitrated disputes regarding compensation and bonus packages in the accounting, consulting, and financial services industries
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
Member, American Bar Association, Illinois State, DuPage County, and Chicago Bar Associations
Frequent speaker and panelist on topics related to arbitration, mediation, class action arbitration, wage and hour mediation, and negotiation
Background and Education
Arbitrator/Mediator, JAMS, 2004-present
Arbitrator/Mediator, ADR Associates, LLC, 2003
Attorney, Winston & Strawn, 1979–2003 (Partner-1985, Capital Partner-1994)
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