Last Thursday, legal professionals from across the Bay Area gathered at The Chapel in San Francisco for the 10th Annual Law Rocks SF concert, a fundraising event benefiting local non-profit organizations. Among the six talented bands that took the stage was Lieff Cabraser’s very own R-23s, who delivered an electrifying performance in support of The
Lieff Cabraser and a few of our clients were recently highlighted in a Bloomberg Law article covering two new lawsuits against CooperSurgical, a prominent leader in the global infertility treatment market, for the company’s use of a defective solution that damaged or destroyed plaintiffs’ embryos. Read more in the article here.
As reported by CBS News, Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million to resolve the class action litigation brought by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel on behalf of local residents over the February 3, 2023 derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, a small, rural community in northeast Ohio. The tragedy made national news last year
Lawdragon legal magazine has published its first-ever “Lawdragon 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers” list, recognizing lawyers who are “globe spanning advocates, bringing justice across borders.” As Lawdragon notes,
As reported by the S.F. Chronicle, the San Francisco Unified School District has been awarded a substantial $24.65 million payment from vaping industry giants Juul and Altria in a landmark settlement allocation that is set to revolutionize the District’s health resources, facilitating the hiring of 76 health-focused professionals, including nurses and
We are delighted to announce that Lieff Cabraser Nashville Managing Partner Mark P. Chalos has been recognized for the ninth time in Nashville Post’s “In Charge 2024: Legal” list of influential legal professionals.
Law360 has selected Lieff Cabraser partners Daniel Chiplock and Melissa Gardner to serve on its 2024 Editorial Advisory Boards. Mr. Chiplock will contribute his expertise to the Securities Editorial Advisory Board, while Ms. Gardner will lend her knowledge to the Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board, enhancing the publication’s coverage in
Lieff Cabraser represents employee plaintiffs in class action litigation against fast food chain McDonald’s over the company’s so-called “no-poach” employee pay and mobility restrictions which prohibit employees from seeking opportunities at other establishments within the vast McDonald’s chain. In August of 2023, the Seventh Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of
Firm lawyers will also present and lead multiple panel discussions at the event
On March 14, 2024, U.S. District Judge William Orrick of the Northern District of California issued an order granting final approval to a comprehensive $235 million settlement with Altria in the nationwide JUUL e-cigarette youth vaping predatory advertising, fraud, addiction and injury litigation. Unprecedented in scope, speed, and significance, the global settlement, reached just after plaintiffs concluded