As a former prosecutor in the United States Air Force, Ms. Betti impresses upon her associates and colleagues integrity, service before self, and excellence in everything her firm represents. These core values provide the best legal representations to clients that ultimately lead to winning cases.
Betti & Associates currently represent clients of child sexual abuse in California, Delaware, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania against religious and non-religious entities, schools and youth organizations. Betti & Associates is affiliated and has collaborated with attorneys in the litigation of clergy sexual abuse cases in California against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Diocese of San Diego, San Bernardino, Dubuque, New Mexico, and many Religious Orders.
With 90% of the practice devoted to litigation, Betti & Associates have been involved in the litigation of over 150 sexual abuse cases and hundreds of complex civil litigation cases, all resolving with positive and successful outcomes for its clients.
Ms. Betti, in particular, worked closely with leading child sexual abuse expert, Dr. Gilbert Kliman, Medical Director of The Psychological Trauma Center, San Francisco, California, in preparation for trial and defending his deposition leading up to the Los Angeles global settlement.
- Archdiocese of Los Angeles for $660 million on behalf of more than 122 of the 508 survivors.
- Dioceses of San Diego and San Bernardino in excess of $198 million on behalf of some 144 victims.
- $750,000 settlement for a client abused by a priest who was knowingly transferred from one Diocese to another. This settlement was in addition to the $1.37 million global settlement
- $200 million in justice and compensation for clients of Freberg & Associates and Ross & Rubino LLP.
Bankruptcy filed by the Diocese of San Diego:
Ms. Betti’s broad experience with childhood sexual abuse cases includes the representation of 15 of the 144 victims against the Diocese of San Diego and San Bernardino when the Diocese of San Diego filed for federal bankruptcy protection to protect its assets in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of California. This task included working with local bankruptcy counsel Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones who were involved in representing official creditors’ committees, which represented survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
