Matt D’Abusco is an innovative and highly effective mediator who is committed to helping parties successfully resolve difficult, complex, and emotionally charged disputes. With his diverse background and experience (both on the defense and plaintiff bar), Matt brings a unique approach to mediation, utilizing his ability to understand the positions of all parties to break impasses and find creative and practical solutions to settle disputes.Prior to his mediation practice, Matt was a seasoned litigator and subject matter expert in employment law, having spent his entire career handling individual, class, and complex disputes across the State of California including those focused on harassment, discrimination, retaliation, leaves of absence, wrongful termination, executive contracts, and wage and hour matters, including those arising under the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”). Matt has also litigated a wide variety of business disputes.Matt began his career working for large defense firms where he represented businesses of all sizes ranging from small family-owned shops to Fortune 500 international corporations. During that time, in addition to obtaining successful results for clients in all phases of litigation including at trial and on appeal, Matt continuously ensured his client’s legal objectives aligned with their business strategies to set them up for continued growth and success.Matt later founded and ran a plaintiff’s employment firm where he successfully represented hundreds of clients in individual, class, and complex cases. Whether pursuing claims on behalf of single minimum wage workers or Chief Executive Officers, Matt focused on understanding his clients and their objectives and worked tirelessly to get them results.Matt is devoted to understanding and bridging the gaps between the parties’ distinct perspectives. This fuels his approach to mediation and proven invaluable in helping parties achieve successful resolution of their disputes.

Now a licensed MCLE course on Westlaw's WestEd Legal Center, Elite Litigation Training is a comprehensive civil litigation training course for attorneys and other legal professionals designed specifically to accelerate career success and rapidly increase confidence and competence. The course covers the entire litigation cycle, from both the plaintiff and defense perspective, providing attendees not only with a detailed understanding of each procedural litigation process and mechanism, but also its strategic important to the case as a whole. This understanding is critical to becoming an effective litigator and, without proper training, takes years to gain. Elite Litigation Training courses are led by our highly experienced and seasoned litigation professionals who have nearly forty (40) years of combined experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation cases. This background provides attendees with a unique and invaluable perspective which allows them to gain a more thorough and effective understanding of the litigation process, returning them to their practice with the ability to handle their cases with abilities far beyond their years of experience.

Ares Law Group is one of the preeminent Southern California employment litigation firms representing individuals in all types of employment disputes involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime wages, meal and rest periods, commission, travel time, employee bonuses, expense reimbursement, leaves of absence, and employment contracts. The difference is in the experience. The attorneys at Ares Law Group have worked at the most renowned and presitgious labor and employment firms in the United States representing local, national and international employers, including Fortune 500 companies, in individual and class action employment litigation matters. This background and experience allows our attorneys to approach each case with a unique perspective. Understanding how their adversaries view and defend cases, their strategic perspective is invaluable to clients.