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Since our founding forty-one years ago, Lieff Cabraser has participated in many of the most important individual and class action lawsuits in the United States, helping recover over $85 billion in verdicts and settlements for our clients.

Successes

Practice Area Case Result
Antitrust & Intellectual Property

  • The settlements this antitrust class action lawsuit brought by direct purchasers against the world’s leading manufacturers of Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) for allegedly conspiring to fix prices totaled over $470 million. Lieff Cabraser served as Co-Lead Counsel for the class.

    $470 Million in settlements
Consumer Protection

  • Lieff Cabraser serves on the plaintiffs' executive committee and is the lead plaintiffs' law firm prosecuting the case against Bank of America in Multi-District Litigation against the nation's major banks for the collection of excessive overdraft fees.

    $410 million settlement
Defective Products

  • In approving the settlement, the Court stated, "I want to thank counsel for the ... very effective and good work ... it was carried out with vigor, integrity, and aggressiveness with never going beyond the maxims of the Court."

    $650 payment or $1,300 certificate for purchase of new car
Employment Law

  • The complaint charges that AT&T has a common practice of misclassifying its technical support workers as exempt and failing to pay them for all overtime hours worked in violation of federal overtime pay laws.

    $12.5 million settlement in overtime pay case
Environmental Litigation

  • After a series of appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court set the punitive damages award against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill at $507.5 million, an amount equal to the compensatory damages. With interest and earlier payments, the total recovery to the plaintiff class was $1.515 billion.

    $1.5 billion in awards and other payments
False Claims Act

  • We served as Lead Plaintiffs' Counsel for former University of Phoenix enrollment counselors. The complaint alleged the school knowingly misled the U.S. Department of Education to become eligible for its students to collect financial aid.

    $78.5 million settlement
Personal Injury

  • Lieff Cabraser served as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel and Elizabeth J. Cabraser chaired the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee charged with overseeing all personal injury and consumer litigation in Federal courts nationwide arising out of the sale and marketing of the COX-2 inhibitors Bextra and Celebrex.

    $850 million in settlements
Securities & Investor Fraud

  • The complaint charges that AXA Rosenberg violated the law when it allowed a material computer error in its proprietary quantitative system to go unnoticed for years, and then unremedied for months.

    $65 million settlement
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Current Cases

Practice Area Case Issue
Antitrust & Intellectual Property

  • Lieff Cabraser is investigating alleged antitrust violations by the world's largest manufacturers of rechargeable Lithium ion-batteries. It is alleged that Sony, Samsung, Sanyo Electric, Panasonic, Hitachi, LG Chemical, and other manufacturers operated a global cartel to fix and artificially inflate the prices of rechargeable Lithium ion batteries sold in the United States.

    Global price-fixing conspiracy
Consumer Protection

  • The District Court issued a $203 million judgment against Wells Fargo for deceiving customers that debit card purchases would be posted chronologically when Wells Fargo posted them in a high-to-low order for the sole purpose of generating overdraft fees. 

    $203 million in restitution
Defective Products

  • The complaints charge that certain front-loading washers develop mold, resulting in a moldy odor on clothes that also permeates the washing machines and consumers' homes.

    Defective design, mildew growth
Employment Law

  • Investigation of complaints by technical support employees at Hewlett-Packard that they have been misclassified as exempt from receiving overtime pay in violation of federal and state law.

    Overtime pay improperly denied

  • The nationwide class action lawsuit charges that Tata unjustly enriched itself by requiring all of its non-U.S.-citizen employees to endorse and sign over their federal and state tax refund checks to Tata.

    Breach of employment contracts; Labor code violations
Environmental Litigation

  • We are representing individuals, property owners, and business owners along the Gulf Coast seeking compensation for lost business and decline in property values in litigation against BP.

    Multi-state environmental disaster
False Claims Act

  • This qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit charges that Sutter hospitals, one of the largest hospital chains in California, submitted false bills for anesthesia services.

    Fraudulent billing of anesthesia services
Personal Injury

  • Lieff Cabraser represents patients who have developed bladder cancer linked to the prescription drug Actos.

    Increased risk of bladder cancer

  • Lieff Cabraser is investigating reports of injuries arising from the use of Granuflo and Naturalyte in patient dialysis.

    Cardiopulmonary arrests

  • Mothers who took Zoloft later in their pregnancy (in the third trimester) are at risk for delivering babies who suffer from the potentially fatal condition of PPHN (primary pulmonary hypertension).

    Birth defects in infants
Securities & Investor Fraud

  • The complaints charge that defendants concealed excessive mark-ups or mark-downs relative to foreign exchange rates of the trades conducted for defendants' custodial FX clients.

    False foreign exchange rates
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