EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE: Multi-million dollar confidential settlement (funded in 2017) on behalf of store managers who were employed by major national retailer, and who were not paid overtime.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  As sole class counsel, obtaining 2017 jury verdict and judgment awarding recovery of unpaid straight-time compensation, overtime compensation, and employee expense reimbursements, for a certified plaintiff class of In-Home Supportive Services workers in San Diego County, and for the Class Representatives, individually (as to uncertified claims), following successful appeal; see, Woodruff v. County of San Diego In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority, Case No. D062180, in the Fourth District Court of Appeal of the State of California.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining 2017 jury verdict and judgment awarding recovery of unpaid overtime compensation for salaried store manager who had been wrongly classified as an exempt executive; see, Merrill v. Party City Corporation, Case No. CGC-14-538972, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Successful service as Chief Class Counsel to a Plaintiff Class of over 250,000 persons in a consumer class action against tire retailer Evans Tire & Service Centers, Inc..  Achieved class certification over vigorous opposition by Defendant.  The pre-trial Settlement which was ultimately reached resulted in substantial monetary benefit to Class Members (valued in seven digits), as well as permanent reforms of Defendant's marketing practices related to sales of tire warranties ("LOTSA") and collection of charges for disposal of customers' used tires ("WTDF").  The reaction of the Class Members to the Settlement was overwhelmingly favorable  The Court granted the Class Representative a recovery enhancement in the amount requested, on the basis of his outstanding service and the resounding success of the Plaintiff Class in the action; see, Descano v. Evans Tire & Service Centers, Inc., Case No. 37-2011-00094991-CU-BT-CTL, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining $4,100,000 settlement (funded in 2011) of wage-and-hour class action against a large hair-stylist chain; see, Mook v. Regis Corporation, Case No. 30-2009-00278779-CU-OE-CXC, in the Superior Court of California for the County of Orange.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining $2,500,000 settlement (funded in 2011) of Fair Labor Standards Act certified collective action against the County of Los Angeles; see, Ali v. County of Los Angeles,  Case No. 08-CV-07627, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining $1,000,000+ judgment on jury verdict (including claim for statutory fees and costs) in a twenty-four (24) plaintiff wage-and-hour action against a third-party merchandising company that had failed to pay its employees for travel time and work performed at their homes; see, Bladh v. Brenner Associates, Inc., Case No. 37-2008-00081732-CU-OE-CTL, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego.

COMMERCIAL DISPUTE CASE:  Obtaining a $1.25 million + verdict and judgment in a case arising from an accounting dispute against one of the world's largest insurance conglomerates, after a trial which lasted nineteen (19) court days, see, Amerimax v. CIGNA Corporation, et al., Case No. GIC 781497, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego.

CONSUMER FRAUD CASE:  Obtaining a unanimous, 26-page, 138-interrogatory, jury verdict (all questions answered in favor of plaintiff) awarding over $2.16 million in a securities-fraud case where the total amount entrusted to the defendant was under $90,000, see, Worthington v. Royal Energy, Civil Action No. 96-0664-CGA, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

CREDITOR'S RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining reversal and rendition of judgment on appeal from a bankruptcy-court judgment which had equitably reduced the amount of a real-estate-secured promissory note from over $14 million to less than $4 million (where the client had been represented by other counsel at trial), see, Horton Grand v. Rose, 1995 WL 499789 (9th Cir. 1995).

CREDITOR'S RIGHTS CASE:  Obtaining and preserving on appeal a bankruptcy-court judgment avoiding well over $500K in statutory liens asserted to secure a claim for real property taxes, see, Historical Properties v. County of San Diego, 1997 WL 759545 (9th Cir. 1997).

CONSUMER CLASS ACTION:  Prevailing at trial in a class-action land-use case in which defendant was found liable for fraudulent business practices, see, Grant, etc. v. American Golf Corporation, etc., et al., Case Number INC 018386, in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Riverside (Indio Branch).

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE:  Prevailing at trial in a wage-and-hour class action in which the jury awarded substantial recovery to the plaintiff class, see, Livingston, et al. v. Chester, etc., Case Number GIC 768263, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego.

Mr. Gallo's Notable Accomplishments