Paullette Christine Deruelle is counsel in the firm’s Litigation department in Miami, where she concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation and class action litigation and arbitration. She has experience handling a wide variety of cases in state and federal courts across the country, ranging from employment litigation to bankruptcy litigation, patent litigation, healthcare litigation and products liability litigation. She has coordinated a national multidistrict litigation involving a nationwide class of physicians against the largest managed care organizations in the healthcare industry, and regularly represents Fortune 500 and other large companies – including UnitedHealth Group, Lehman Brothers, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Toyobo Co., and PDL BioPharma – in a variety of high-stakes disputes, including in litigations involving complex financial instruments and deal structures, constitutional law, RICO, ERISA, and the ADA. Ms. Deruelle also maintains a steadfast commitment to the firm’s pro bono initiative. Among other representations, she has achieved nationally-recognized results in her representation of members of the Humane Society of the United States in a nationwide class action litigation challenging the sales of puppies from “puppy mills.”
In recent years, Ms. Deruelle received national recognition as one of the top performing law firm associates of color in the country by Stakeholder 100, and was identified as a “Future Star” in the Florida market by the IFLR 1000.
Ms. Deruelle received her law degree magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law.