A new victim of Dr. Robert E. Anderson has come forward in an amended class action complaint against the University of Michigan, seeking to serve as a representative for the thousands of other students who were put in harm’s way by the school physician from 1968 to 2003.
On August 26, 2020, Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted final approval to a settlement of the labor antitrust litigation filed by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel on behalf of railway workers who alleged an illegal scheme by Knorr and Wabtec to improperly avoid hiring each other’s employees to artificially suppress compensation and competition in the related job market.
The Best Lawyers in America has announced its 2021 recognition of outstanding attorney leaders in the U.S., a list that we are proud to announce includes a record twenty-six Lieff Cabraser lawyers.
Article includes commentary from Lieff Cabraser Nashville partner Kenny Byrd, who represented the plaintiff The AAJ reports that the Eleventh Circuit has found in favor of the plaintiff in an Engle progeny tobacco injury lawsuit against cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, holding that a punitive damages award of over $20 million was constitutionally appropriate and not
California’s 2018 Camp wildfire destroyed the town of Paradise and killed over 80 people. As reported by ABC10, utility PG&E knew seven months prior to the fire that a 72-year-old power line had “severe wear” on its steel parts that could affect safe operation of the line. PG&E’s own internal report concluded that the line
Lieff Cabraser partner Sarah R. London will be a featured speaker at the Consumer Attorneys of California Sonoma Virtual Seminar taking place March 19–20, 2021. On day two of the seminar (3/20), Sarah will speak during the MCLE session entitled “Trial Skills Quick Hits,” where she will discuss “Testing The Test Case: Developments in JUUL and TDF Cases.”
Lieff Cabraser partner Kelly Dermody talks to The Intercept about the ongoing obstacles inmates face trying to secure Covid stimulus payments Over 1.4 million incarcerated Americans won economic relief late last year after CARES Act stimulus checks for inmates (which had been denied by the Trump administration despite congressional approval) were granted following a federal
The Coronavirus pandemic has left many Americans struggling financially, especially prison inmates and their families. A large measure of economic relief came to over 1.5 million incarcerated Americans late last year after CARES Act stimulus payments for inmates (which had previously been denied) were granted following a legal challenge brought by Lieff Cabraser and the
We are proud to announce that Daniel M. Hutchinson has been named Chair of the firm’s Employment Law Practice Group. Daniel has demonstrated his leadership and vision in the field of employment law by litigating and settling complex employment class actions. As a partner at Lieff Cabraser, Daniel served as lead or co-lead counsel on
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Judge overseeing PG&E’s probation after it was found criminally liable in the 2010 San Bruno residential pipeline explosion stated that PG&E may have been “criminally reckless” in failing to cut down a pine tree prior to the 2020 Zogg wildfire that stood near the fire’s point of
