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Labor & Employment

Jul. 16, 2014

David M. deRubertis

The deRubertis Law Firm APC Studio City Specialties: employment trials, appeals


In the first Sarbanes-Oxley retaliation case he's ever handled or tried, deRubertis prevailed against Playboy Enterprises Inc.


His client Catherine Zulfer had worked for Playboy for almost three decades, and had served as its corporate controller. Zulfer v. Playboy Enterprises Inc., CV12-8263 (C.D. Cal., filed Sept. 25, 2012).


"Our client was asked to put on the company's books discretionary executive bonuses of $1.1 million," d...

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