This week, May 12-13, Lieff Cabraser partners Elizabeth Cabraser and Annika K. Martin will speak at the 2026 Class of Our Own Women’s Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. Elizabeth will co-lead the panel, “It’s All About the Climb: The Path to Leadership in Class Actions,” and Annika will speak on the panel, “Defense Playbook.”
The Class of Our Own Women’s Summit is an annual event focused on fostering meaningful dialogue among women attorneys in the plaintiff-side class action bar.
About Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Elizabeth Cabraser is one of the nation’s leading class action litigators, possessing unparalleled expertise in complex civil litigation. She has served as court-appointed lead, co-lead, or class counsel in scores of federal multi-district and state coordinated proceedings, and currently serves in leadership positions in several of the nation’s highest profile civil cases, including a solo leadership role in the VW “Clean Diesel” Emissions case, and co-lead positions in the GM ignition switch defect and Takata defective airbag cases, the Fiat Chrysler Jeep Dodge diesel emissions fraud litigation, the Generic Drugs Pricing antitrust litigation, and the National Prescription Opiates litigation.
About Annika K. Martin
A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office and head of the firm’s Sexual Abuse Survivors Practice Group, Annika K. Martin served as co-lead counsel for plaintiff abuse victims in the USC student sexual abuse lawsuit that led to a $215 million settlement with USC and Dr. Tyndall and significant institutional changes. She is currently representing men who were sexually abused as students by University of Michigan physician Robert Anderson.
Annika also represents plaintiffs in class action and mass tort litigation concerning consumer fraud, environmental issues, and products liability. She served as co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in the successful national consumer fraud class action brought against General Motors Company over allegedly defective air conditioning systems, and has a similar role in the more recent similar product defect case against Mercedes over their allegedly defective vehicle HVAC systems.
Annika is the current co-chair of AAJ’s Class Action Litigation Group.
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