Traumatic Brain Injuries: Selecting the Right Experts to Demonstrate, Dispute the Existence and Extent of Damage

Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having personally litigated multiple cases to settlement, verdict, or judgment with awards in excess of $1,000,000 and as high as $25,000,000. For the last fifteen years, he has been running a trial team dedicated to the representation of injured individuals in California which has handled matters specializing in civil litigation that involve complicated medical issues and disabilities. Mr. de Saint Phalle is an accomplished civil litigator in a variety of areas, including industrial accidents, product liability, exceptions to workers’ compensation, premises liability, professional malpractice, auto, bicycle and boating accidents, as well as business disputes.

Licensed as a chiropractor, Dr. DeGaetano has worked with medical doctors, chiropractors and law firms all over the United States to help professionals work together across disciplinary lines. His areas of expertise include whiplash and brain trauma, the biomechanics of spine trauma, soft tissue injury and repair, pain and proprioceptive neurology, and the management of spine and spine-related disorders.

Ms. Leary is an associate in the Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC (“RLS”) Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation Groups. She represents people who have suffered serious injury as a result of negligence, including personal injury actions, intentional torts and whistleblower actions. Ms. Leary earned her B.A. in political theory from the University of San Francisco, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She earned her J.D. from the University of California at Davis, and was a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. 

Dr. Kevin Rosenblatt is the Chief Scientific Officer and Lab Director at Brazos Pathology, LLP. He has more than 30 years of clinical and biomedical research and development experience in multiple settings, including academia, biotech, startups, and clinical practice. Dr. Rosenblatt has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on cancer, neuronal biology, biomarker development, and clinical genomics and proteomics, and he gives lectures at various national and international meetings in these areas. After completing his training in the combined MD-PhD program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, he completed his residency in pathology and a research fellowship in cancer signaling and predictive biomarkers at the National Cancer Institute/FDA. Dr. Rosenblatt served as Director of the Center for Clinical Proteomics at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine and as the Director of the Clinical and Translational Proteomics Service Center at the UT Health Science Center. He was Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine at UT Health and the McGovern Medical School and Associate, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Health Professions at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Rubaye is an experienced Psychiatrist and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the mental health care industry. He is skilled in rTMS, Katamine/ Esketamine Treatment, Zulresso (brexanolone) Infusion, Clinical Research, Medical Education, fMRI, and Neuropsychiatry. Mr. Rubaye is currently licensed in TX, CA, CT, OH, HI, NY, and NJ.