Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

that Mr. Huynh was terminated for reporting potential fraud and violations of internal controls within Wal-Mart’s e-Commerce business as Wal-Mart raced to catch-up with Amazon in the online retail space. “ More important than ever before in America today, it is critical that the courthouse doors remain open to those who courageously speak truth to power putting themselves, their families and their careers in harm’s way. I’m proud to have represented courageous whistleblowers in their quest for justice and look forward to continuing to handle these important cases ,” says deRubertis. Peer recognition as a leader in the employment trial bar DeRubertis is consistently recognized by his peers and in industry leading publications as one of the leading employment trial lawyers. To name just a few of his honors: CAALA’s 2014 “ Trial Lawyer of the Year ”; “ Best Lawyers in America – ‘Lawyer of the Year – Employment Law Individuals (Los Angeles) ’” in both 2014 and 2018; “ California Lawyer of the Year – Employment Law ” (CLAY Award); and “ Joseph Posner Award ” from the California Employment Lawyers Association. Leading industry publications regularly recognize his status as one of the leading employment trial lawyers. For example, deRubertis is the only employee rights lawyer to have been recognized by California’s leading legal publication (the Los Angeles & San Francisco Daily Journal) as one of the Top Labor & Employment Lawyers every year since the inception of this honor in 2009. Similarly, the Daily Journal has recognized his jury verdicts in employment cases as being one of the “Top Verdicts by Impact” in both 2014 and 2016. Diverse breadth of experience: Capable of trying any case where someone is harmed – economically, physically and/or emotionally – by the intentional or negligent misconduct of another While deRubertis’ primary practice area is employee rights representation, deRubertis diverse background as a lawyer allows him to handle virtually any type of contingency- fee civil litigation matter. In fact, in his nearly-two decades as a trial lawyer, he has handled just about every type of contingency-fee civil litigation case, including just to name a few cases involving: medical and legal malpractice; business torts such as fraud or interference with contract or prospective economic advantage; trade secret misappropriation; invasion of privacy and false light; wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury of all types (e.g., product liability; construction site accidents; car crashes; premises liability, etc.); malicious prosecution and abuse of process; insurance bad faith; and many others. Demonstrating the diversity of his trial practice, in addition to countless employment and catastrophic injury cases, in recent years deRubertis has been retained to serve as lead trial counsel in an anticipated re-trial of what had been the largest palimony jury verdict in California history before a new trial was granted and a breach of contract case involving millions of dollars in dispute when a real estate venture went bad. According to deRubertis, “Trial skills are trial skills, and they are fungible. If you know how to connect with jurors, simplify a case to its core essential truths and present those truths convincingly to a jury, it doesn’t matter what the subject matter is. Trials are trials and trial lawyer skills are transferrable to any type of case.” AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Employee rights representation including whistleblower, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, defamation and employment-related class actions. • Catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. • Contingency business or commercial litigation. • Insurance bad faith. CONTACT The deRubertis Law Firm, APC 4219 Coldwater Canyon Avenue Studio City, California 91604 Tel: (818) 761-2322 Email: info@deRubertisLaw.com David@deRubertisLaw.com “It is critical that the courthouse doors remain open to those who courageously speak truth to power putting themselves, their families and their careers in harm’s way.” Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 www.finance-monthly.com 67 USA