My name is John Roussas. I’m a 2003 graduate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. I focus my practice on government tort liability, general liability, medical malpractice litigation, and wildfire litigation. I was drafted into wildfire litigation, like most of the victims of wildfires were, when my family was burned out in the 2017 Tubbs Fire up in Northern California. And after seeing so many people suffer so much and losing so much, I decided that this is something that we need to get involved in to help people—not just in this one fire in Northern California, not just our friends, not just our family, but people throughout the state.
I was also drafted into medical malpractice litigation when a friend of ours, a friend of the family, had a situation where they were just catastrophically injured by a hospital, through no fault of our friends, and the hospital refused to step up, refused to do what was right, and just left them in a place where they were a paraplegic and gaslit him. They told them that the hospital had absolutely no responsibility for what happened, and we were able to prove that the hospital knew that they were wrong. They knew from the moment they treated this patient that they had done wrong, and they knew that they were responsible for him spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
So, from seeing the hardships that these particular friends and family have gone through, my law firm and I have focused our practice on helping other Californians who have been injured through reckless misconduct—utilities, hospitals, governmental entities, large corporations, whoever it is. If somebody acts recklessly, if somebody acts wrongfully, we will hold them accountable. What I value most about working at Cutter Law is having the resources to do right by all of our clients. When you’re fighting the government, when you’re fighting large utilities, when you’re fighting multinational corporations, you absolutely must have significant resources to back you—whether that is financial, whether that is staff, whether that is mentoring to help you figure out how to attack these unique areas of law, you absolutely need those kinds of resources to achieve justice for each of your clients.
