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Twelve Lieff Cabraser Lawyers Selected By Their Peers For Inclusion In Best Lawyers in America 2012

August 31, 2011

For the 2012 edition of Best Lawyers in America, twelve Lieff Cabraser lawyers have been recognized as Best Lawyers.  Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has been regarded as one of the leading guides of excellence in the legal profession.  Selection in Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which tens of thousands of leading attorneys cast more than 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.  Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed. 

“Achieving justice for our clients and a strong, principled sense of social responsibility are what drives Lieff Cabraser,” stated Lieff Cabraser Managing Partner Steven E. Fineman.  “Our lawyers are routinely appointed by federal and state courts to serve as leaders in significant, precedent-setting litigation.  The recognition of twelve Lieff Cabraser lawyers in Best Lawyers is further evidence that our lawyers are among the most qualified and skilled lawyers in the nation in their fields of law.”

The twelve Lieff Cabraser attorneys selected as Best Lawyers in its 2012 edition are as follows:

Donald C. Arbitblit, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions and Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation;

Kathryn E. Barnett, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation and Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation;

Elizabeth J. Cabraser, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions, Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation, and Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation;

Mark P. Chalos, recognized in the category of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions;

Kelly M. Dermody, recognized in the categories of Employment Law Individuals and Labor & Employment; 

Steven E. Fineman, recognized in the category of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions; 

Rachel J. Geman, recognized in the category of Employment Law Individuals;

Richard M. Heimann, recognized in the categories of Bet-the-Company Litigation, and Antitrust, Mass Tort, and Securities Litigation; 

Scott P. Nealey, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions and Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation; 

Robert J. Nelson, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions; Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation, and Plaintiffs’ Products Liability Litigation;

Joseph R. Saveri, recognized in the category of Antitrust Litigation; 

Fabrice N. Vincent, recognized in the categories of Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions and Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation;

Best Lawyers is a registered trademark of Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.

About Lieff Cabraser 

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a sixty-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville.  We are among the largest law firms in the United States that only represent plaintiffs.

Since our founding in 1972, we have been committed to achieving justice for investors, consumers, employees, patients, and small business owners, promoting safer products and fair competition, protecting our environment, and remedying violations of the civil rights of citizens worldwide.  Our comprehensive and diverse practice is unique among plaintiffs’ law firms.  Learn more at www.lieffcabraser.com