Last winter, DeSimone spent 10 weeks in trial on a defamation claim arising from the firing of his client, a transplant surgeon. DeSimone's client was terminated for speaking up about ethical breaches at Loma Linda University Medical Center, he said.
The wrongful termination portion of the action went to mandatory arbitration and "resolved to the mutual satisfaction to both parties," he said. But at trial before Judge Michael A. Sachs, DeSimone was ...
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