GAIL ALLYN LANDAU, ESQ. is an attorney, mediator, and consultant specializing in public relations/communications, employer/employee relations, family and intra partnership disputes, elder financial abuse and intra family disputes, healthcare and caregiver disputes, and advocacy for special interest groups and organizations including non-profits and charities. 

Ms. Landau’s experience includes high profile litigation in the field of healthcare defense with a focus on complex medical negligence and medical device claims, professional negligence defense litigation including directors and officers liability and attorney negligence, toxic tort/product liability actions, insurance risk management and litigation analysis, and workplace claims and employer/employee relations and disputes. Ms. Landau has been appointed by excess insurance carriers as monitoring counsel for several multi-national medical device manufacturers with responsibility for supervising trial preparation and negotiating settlements throughout the United States. In the last decade, Gail has been engaged in dispute resolution and her personal collaborative style and skills have distinguished her in the field of mediation. Difficult disputes demand careful analysis and preparation along with creativity and empathy for the parties. Matters both large and small receive compassionate and efficient preparation and resolution. Ombuds services available. 

Ms. Landau is a nationally recognized public speaker in the areas of attorney/client relations, physician office practices and risk avoidance, witness preparation and litigation support,  benefits of mediation v. litigation, claims resolution, elder advocacy in the areas of caregiver abuse and financial abuse, scams, and fraud and undue influence, as well as client advocacy/legal ethics and professionalism. She has been nominated for recognition and honors by the Orange County Business Journal’s Annual Women in Business Awards. 

Gail received her BA from Loyola University of Chicago and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University School of Law where she also served as a trial advocacy instructor. Gail devoted decades to her practice as a litigator at the law firm she founded Landau, Omahana & Kopka, LLC., heading the Professional Negligence Division. She later completed the Pepperdine University School of Law/Strauss Institute’s “Mediating the Litigated Case” mediation training program for attorneys and judges. She now provides conflict resolution and ombuds services through her firm Gila Mediation & Consulting. Ms. Landau is a long-standing member of the ABA active in the Litigation and Mediation Practice Sections and is a proud member of the William P. Gray Legion Lex Inn of Court. She actively serves as a board member for several non-profits as varied as elder advocacy, legal aid organizations, and animal rights groups and is a member of the Southern California Mediation Association. She is the President and Founder of Catmosphere Laguna Foundation EIN:83-1171810. Gail is President-Elect of the Laguna Beach Business Club, 2021-2022.