websterlaw.eth

Plaintiff’s employment litigator in CA. Interests include the law, sports, and anything web3

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

On Oct 20th, after a 2 1/2 week trial, an LA jury found that our client, Dr. Anissa Rogers, was subjected to a gender-based hostile work environment which Cal State Univ San Bernardino @csusbnews failed to prevent and that she was retaliated against for reporting gender-based mistreatment by then Dean of CSUSB’s Palm Desert Campus, Dr. Jake Zhu. The case was not about wage loss but equal treatment at work, loss of enjoyment of life and loss of the dignity that work brings. The jury felt the harm and compassionately returned a $6 million verdict for these non-economic, human harms. I was honored to represent Dr. Rogers along with my amazing co-counsel Courtney Abrams and Andrew Friedman who lived this case from day one and worked tirelessly to deliver justice to Dr. Rogers. I am grateful that they asked me to join the team for this trial. Huge thanks to @TrialByHarry for his always indispensable work in our trials (this time navigating through a very challenging panel) to Joe Repking from EP who stepped up his trial tech game on this one, and to Leslie Gomez-Garcia and everyone at DLF for all they do to continue to allow me to try these cases. This was the first of two gender discrimination and harassment cases that our co-counsel team has against Cal State San Bernardino and we look forward to continue to shine a light on the systemic problems of gender-based mistreatment that lived for far too long throughout the Cal State system. But for now, we are grateful that justice was delivered to Dr. Rogers.

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

Thank you ⁦@TheNLJ⁩ for recognizing my firm as the 2025 Elite Trial Lawyers for Employment Rights. With almost $600 million in employment-related jury verdicts in the last 3 years, we appreciate all of our co-counsel & clients who entrusted us with these trials.

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

On June 26th, 2025, after a nearly 5 week trial, a diligent, committed and compassionate Los Angeles jury returned a $27.5 million whistleblower retaliation and failure to accommodate/failure to engage verdict against Dignity Health in favor of our wonderful client, Nancy Valla, the former Chief Nursing Officer at Dignity Health’s St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. I had the privilege of representing Nancy at trial along with my co-counsel Brennan Hershey & Johnny Rundell. Nancy, as a nurse, took to heart that her #1 responsibility was to ensure patient safety and quality of care. But the evidence in this trial showed that Nancy’s push for safety and quality of care clashed with the hospital’s CEO’s and COO’s focus on maximizing short-term profits over the safety of patients. Nancy didn’t back down and she wouldn’t be silenced, but she then found herself in the cross-hairs of retaliation led by the hospital’s CEO Carolyn Caldwell. The retaliatory conduct pushed Nancy into a medical leave which the hospital could easily have accommodated. But instead they used it as an excuse to rid themselves of the whistleblower. After about 2 hours of deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous 12/0 verdict on all claims (whistleblower retaliation, failure to accommodate, failure to engage in good-faith IAP) with a total verdict of $27.5 million ($5 million economics and $22.5 million in non-economics/human harms). After their verdict, many of the jurors embraced Nancy with heartfelt hugs sharing a beautiful moment of mutual tears. Thank you to Nancy for trusting me to tell her authentic story, to Brennan Hershey for asking me to do this trial with his firm, to my Director of Trials Leslie Gomez for being my indispensable trial partner, to @TrialByHarry and @TrialByClaire who are the best jury consultants in the business and who both worked together to pick this jury, and to the #1 trial tech Joe Repking from EP. Hopefully, health care corporations learn their lesson from verdicts like this.

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

Happy to report our San Diego jury returned an $11.2 million failure to accommodate & age discrimination verdict today for our deserving client, Alice Roque who worked for ⁦@OctapharmaUSA⁩ for 19 years. #reasonableaccommodation, #agediscrimination https://t.co/REvcj2NLcG

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

Today, our LA jury returned a $41.5 million whistleblower verdict for Maria Gatchalian, a 30 year NICU charge nurse at Kaiser Woodland Hills. Maria had the courage to speak up about patient safety and chronic understaffing. Kaiser fired her in retaliation hoping to silence her

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@chargers @TuipulotuTuli @chargers we need a @TuipulotuTuli jersey asap!! Great pick let’s go.

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@fearcitynft @DasSmurf #ThumperComicNFT hey this comic was created by @fearcitynft and artist Steven Bliss. Pretty cool idea. It’s distributed via web3

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@luuminize @AzukiOfficial IMO. The beanz are solid too.

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@derublaw Amazing result and well earned. Congratulations to you and your team.

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

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[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@chargers This is the best thing I have ever seen a sports team do for social media content. Well done @chargers. The anime is awesome. Very excited for the season.

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@Topps My want is for the honey badger 🦡 @danielricciardo to win. But since he starts from P14, I’ll be rooting for @Carlossainz55 to get his first win!

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@derublaw Just did my first 776 witness today too. Good luck with your trial. Keep fighting!

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@Stussy any plans to enter the NFT market?

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@AdamBombSquad @bobbyhundreds @YoungCorey @NickyDiamonds Wasn’t able to listen live. Was it recorded? Is posted anywhere so I can listen to it?

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@StarcatchersNFT Love that you are doing this. Provides individuals the ability to see it in action and trust that your project isn’t just another rug pull. Is there a way members will be able to track this? thank you

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@JenniferMills21 @dhbc_uk @DHBCMexico @dhbcdownunder @DHBCGermany @dhbcontcanada @DhbcSwitzerland Thanks for doing this @JenniferMills21

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@MetaDAONFT @DasSmurf @andrewmnguyen

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

Two tickets to the Rams v Seahawks for sale. Friend can’t make the Tuesday game. Seats are in section 429 row 4 and has parking. @RamsNFL @Seahawks

[websterlaw.eth @joshwebster31]

@Topps Azerbaijan was a great race on a great street track. Thank you for holding this give away. It would be amazing to win this prize.