Benchmark Litigation has announced their short list for the 2025 Benchmark Litigation US awards, and we are pleased to report that the firm is a finalist for Plaintiff Firm of the Year and for Labor & Employment Firm of the Year. In addition, Lieff Cabraser San Francisco office Managing Partner Kelly Dermody is a finalist for Labor & Employment Litigator of the Year.
The winners will be announced at the 2025 Benchmark awards dinner on Thursday March 6, 2025 at 583 Park Avenue.
Congratulations to all!
About Lieff Cabraser
Described by The American Lawyer as “one of the nation’s premier plaintiffs’ firms,” Lieff Cabraser enjoys a national reputation for professional integrity and the successful prosecution of our clients’ claims. We possess sophisticated legal skills and the financial resources necessary for the handling of large, complex cases, and for litigating against some of the nation’s largest corporations.
In 2024 alone, Lawdragon recognized 9 Lieff Cabraser lawyers as “Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers,” 24 Lieff Cabraser lawyers as “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers,” 28 firm lawyers as “Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers,” 14 firm lawyers as “Global Plaintiff Lawyers,” and 10 firm lawyers as “Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers.” We saw 13 lawyers named to Lawdragon’s 2024 “Lawdragon 500X, The Next Generation” list, and The National Law Journal honored us with their 2024 “Elite Trial Lawyers” awards for Employee Rights and Anti-Discrimination. Our firm was named “Class Action Department of the Year” by the New York Law Journal, and our firm’s JUUL injuries case team shared the Daily Journal’s 2024 “California Lawyer of the Year” award. We saw two lawyers named as the Journal’s “Leading Commercial Litigators” for 2024, and Law360 named LCHB its “Product Liability Law Practice Group of the Year.”
About Kelly M. Dermody
The Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, Kelly M. Dermody specializes in class and collective actions on behalf of plaintiffs in civil rights, employment, and consumer cases, including gender discrimination cases against Google and Goldman Sachs. Kelly was also named a 2023 Law360 MVP in the category of Class Action and Employment Law. Additional case work includes wage suppression claims against technology, healthcare, and academic institutions; overtime and lost pay lawsuits for low-wage workers, I/T professionals, and foreign nationals working for American corporations; and ERISA claims that she has tried on behalf of employees and retirees for pension plan abuses. She also leads Lieff Cabraser’s representation of women who allege their ovarian and uterine cancer was caused by long-term use of dangerous hair relaxer products.
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