David DeRubertis

Following his record-setting $464.5 million dollars employment retaliation jury verdict in June 2022 ($422.5 million for one plaintiff and $42.2 million for the other), David deRubertis continued his string of outlier, record-setting employment jury verdicts in 2023 with a $41.5 million whistleblower retaliation verdict against Kaiser in December 2023 preceded by a $20 million failure to accommodate verdict against Marriott in September 2023. The Kaiser verdict was the largest employment jury verdict in the country in 2023 and the Marriott verdict was a record-setting verdict for the venue it was tried in. These two cases were very different: a failure to provide a proper ergonomic workstation for a disabled concierge versus a patient safety retaliation case on behalf of a nurse. But the methods and techniques that deRubertis has honed and fine tuned for years continued to produce these outlier results. At this year’s session, deRubertis will illustrate his methods and techniques to preparing and trying employment cases through a two-day session that highlights how these methods and techniques were used in the Kaiser and Marriott cases. This will not be a rehash of last year’s session but rather will build upon it and illustrate refined techniques so that those who attended last year or new attendees will both benefit from this session.

Testimonials:
The workshop was case specific, in this instance for the Edison case, and provided insight on the challenges David faced and strategies developed to overcome them. The time spent in David's workshop was well spent not just for the lecture but the opportunity for group discussion and feedback. The whole program was also a great way to see colleagues and meet new ones.
-Michael Chang, Soco Law Firm