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John is the Chair of the Labor & Employment Practice and a member of the firm’s management committee. His practice is dedicated exclusively to representing and counseling employer in employment-related matters.

Ms. Rossi is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20+ years of experience providing mental health services to individuals, couples and families.

David S. Phillips joined Signature Resolution as a mediator after more than 25 years of representing both plaintiffs and defendants. His background has taught him to carefully evaluate the legal risks and rewards faced by parties. He understands the challenges and opportunities motivating plaintiffs and defendants, as well as their respective counsel. 
 
With 10 years in employment litigation, Mr. Phillips has resolved emotionally charged disputes like gender, race, age, disability, and sexual orientation discrimination, as well as harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. He is also fully versed in all aspects of wage-and-hour class action. Mr. Phillips has handled complex business and commercial disputes, high– profile casualty loss and insurance bad– faith claims, as well as a wide variety of privacy, intellectual property, and malpractice lawsuits

Martin I. Aarons has been an employment law trial attorney for more than 18 years. As a trial lawyer, Martin has handled all types of employment related cases on behalf of people who have suffered a workplace injustice. He specializes in cases involving discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, retaliation and whistleblower cases of all kinds, shapes, and sizes.

David deRubertis, Founder of the deRubertis Firm, APC. David has been recognized as one of California’s leading trial lawyers. David represents plaintiffs in employment law, catastrophic injury, wrongful death cases, business litigation, consumer class actions and insurance bad faith.

Eve Wagner, Esq. joined Signature Resolution in 2019 as a mediator and arbitrator. She has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of cases involving employment, entertainment, business, and real estate matters.

More than 18 years ago, Ms. Wagner expanded her litigation practice to include mediation and arbitration. Since then, she has resolved hundreds of cases involving a wide variety of disputes, ranging from single to multi-party, complex matters involving employment, Civil Rights/Unruh Act, class actions, PAGA claims, entertainment, intellectual property, legal malpractice, fee disputes, premises liability, and personal injury. She also joined the Independent Film & Television Alliance in 2013 and the AAA in 2017.

Previously she co-founded a successful litigation boutique and practiced extensively in federal and state courts, as well as alternate dispute resolution forums. She litigated both plaintiff- and defense-side employment cases, as well as both sides of entertainment, business, and real estate matters. Ms. Wagner represented individuals as well as small to large publicly traded corporations in various industries, including entertainment, real estate, financial, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing.

Ms. Wagner’s mediation style emphasizes common sense, clear communication, and the ability to solve difficult problems with practical solutions. She uses both the evaluative and the facilitative styles of mediation.