Phillip Di Tullio

Prior to joining the Firm, Phil advised on the following matters:

• Won a complete defense verdict during a bench trial against client’s former employee claiming unpaid performance bonus.
• Won a complete defense victory at arbitration defending an employer in a former employee’s suit alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. The former employee sought USD 10 million in damages and the panel sided with the employer.
• Defended an energy-infrastructure company against a former employee’s wage-and-hour class action and PAGA representative action, resulting in a global settlement and release valued at less than 5 percent of potential damages exposure.
• Defended a telecommunications company against a former employee’s wage and hour class action and PAGA representative action, resulting in a settlement valued at less than 10 percent of potential exposure.
• Won a permanent injunction against a former oil and gas executive accused of stealing trade secrets and illegally competing against his then-current employer.
• Achieved a walk-away settlement for an employer accused of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination by a former employee who sought millions in damages.
• Achieved a settlement of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation arbitration valued at less than 5 percent of plaintiff’s damages claim.
• Successfully dismissed parent-corporation from lawsuit alleging joint-employment by former employee alleging wrongful termination and discrimination in federal court.
• Recovered the value of a financial institution’s trade secrets—to the tune of an eight-figure settlement—after they were stolen by former employees by achieving a TRO and preliminary injunction.
• Achieved a walk-away settlement for a company accused of breach of contract by the company’s former vendor, which sought millions in damages.