The National Law Journal has announced the finalists for its 2023 “Elite Trial Lawyers” awards, and we are pleased to announce that Lieff Cabraser has been named a finalist for “Plaintiffs Firm of the Year.” The firm has also been named a finalist in five practice categories: Class Action, Consumer Protection, Discrimination, Products Liability, and
On May 8, 2023, Lieff Cabraser partner Rachel Geman spoke at the 2023 Class Action Money & Ethics Conference at The Harmonie Club in New York City, where she co-led a panel discussion on gender discrimination and pay equity class-based litigation. The panel reviewed recent large equal pay cases, including Lieff Cabraser’s 2022 $118M Google gender discrimination settlement,
As reported by Law360, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel have filed a complaint seeking to consolidate claims from residents, businesses, and property owners across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia affected by the recent and catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic spill. The complaint cites claims including negligence, state law violations, and crop destruction following the devastating
Unprecedented in scope, speed, and significance, the global settlement, reached just after plaintiffs concluded their case in the bellwether trial in San Francisco, is the culmination of four years of a vast, unrelenting effort by plaintiffs and their counsel to hold Altria accountable for the 21st century’s ‘cigarettes redux’ youth nicotine plague May 10, 2023,
On May 8, 2023, the parties announced that Plaintiffs have reached an agreement with Defendants Goldman Sachs & Company LLC and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (collectively, “Goldman Sachs”), in which Goldman Sachs will pay $215 million to settle a gender discrimination class action lawsuit, Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, No. 10-cv-6950-AT-RWL, pending
As reported by Reuters, the Biden administration recently announced a groundbreaking environmental justice agreement in Alabama, addressing racial discrimination against Black residents of Lowndes County. The first-of-its kind settlement comes after an 18-month federal probe revealed that the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) failed to provide adequate sewage systems and imposed fines on residents
Lieff Cabraser attorneys Elizabeth Cabraser, Wendy Fleishman, and Hannah Lazarz will be panelists at “A Class of Our Own,” a national conference on class action litigation for women litigators across the U.S. being held from Sunday May 7th through Tuesday May 9th at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Produced by Epiq legal and
Law360 has selected Lieff Cabraser attorney Avery Halfon to serve as one of the lawyers on its 2023 Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory board.
Employee rights lawsuits play a critical role in keeping businesses fair and inclusive. By challenging gender, race, and age discrimination, sexual and other harassment, and wage fraud and theft, these cases set precedents that force defendant organizations to create and maintain more equitable workplaces and fair cultures, while alerting other companies that they cannot escape
As reported by Law360 in its ongoing coverage of the JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris), extraordinary allegations have surfaced from a former JUUL executive who claims he was fired after raising concerns about the company’s marketing campaigns targeting young users.