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Isabella DeSisto is a Senior Associate at Shegerian Coniff LLP. She focuses her practice on employment litigation, with particular emphasis on sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and gender discrimination matters.

Ms. DeSisto has extensive litigation experience handling hundreds of employment cases from inception through resolution. She regularly manages all stages of litigation, including written discovery, law and motion practice, depositions, settlement negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution. She has participated in numerous mediations on behalf of employees in complex workplace harassment and discrimination disputes and has helped secure significant recoveries for her clients, including a $2.19 million sexual harassment settlement and a $1.25 million sexual harassment settlement.

In addition to her mediation experience, Ms. DeSisto has taken and defended depositions in a wide range of employment matters and has successfully arbitrated a case through final resolution, further strengthening her advocacy in contested proceedings. Her litigation practice is focused on aggressively representing employees who have experienced unlawful workplace harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. DeSisto worked at the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Legislative Advocates Office, where she conducted legislative and legal research on pending public safety bills. She also gained experience at the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office, and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.