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"One of the nation's premier plaintiffs firms," Lieff Cabraser has 120 lawyers in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Munich. We have a widely diversified practice successfully representing plaintiffs in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities and financial fraud, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, product defect, consumer protection, antitrust, environmental and toxic exposures, False Claims Act, digital privacy and data security, and civil and human rights. Our clients include individuals, classes and groups of people, businesses, and public and private entities.

Lieff Cabraser & Co-Counsel Announce That Students Reach Agreement With University of Michigan to Implement Landmark Reforms Addressing On-Campus Sexual Misconduct

Agreement will result in oversight and institutional reforms at UofM to address sexual assault, harassment, and other sexual violence; creates innovative Coordinated Community Response Team ANN ARBOR – A class action settlement between students and the University of Michigan will lead to the creation and implementation of best-in-class, institutional reforms at UofM that address and

LieffCabraser2022-03-24T17:20:27+00:00March 24th, 2022|Firm News, Sexual Abuse|

$237.5 Boeing Derivative Suit Settlement Granted Final Approval

Vice Chancellor Zurn of the Delaware Chancery Court has entered an Order and Final Judgment approving a $237.5 million settlement that will end stockholders’ derivative litigation relating to Boeing’s oversight of the 737 MAX’s design and development. Co-Lead Plaintiffs the New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, as trustee of the New York State Common

LieffCabraser2022-03-22T23:16:41+00:00March 22nd, 2022|Securities Fraud|

District Court Rejects Goldman Sachs’ Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop Long-Standing Gender Discrimination Class Action; The Certified Class Action Will Proceed to Trial

Judge Torres’ Order also agrees with plaintiffs on multiple evidentiary and expert testimony issues On March 17, 2022, District Court Judge Analisa Torres issued an Order in the ongoing Goldman Sachs gender discrimination case (originally filed in 2010) with significant positive ramifications for the plaintiffs and the Class. Most significantly:

LieffCabraser2023-04-19T19:22:26+00:00March 18th, 2022|Discrimination, Employment Law|

North Carolina Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Criminal Defendants Seeking Post-Conviction DNA Innocence Testing

Watershed criminal justice result based in part on pro bono amicus work by Lieff Cabraser attorney Evan Ballan On March 11, 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order creating a critical new criminal justice standard, permitting criminal defendants to seek post-conviction DNA innocence testing even if they had pled

LieffCabraser2022-09-14T21:22:53+00:00March 15th, 2022|Amicus, Firm News|

Metro Nashville to Receive $23M From Historic National Opioid Settlement Benefiting Taxpayers by Funding Public Programs to Fight Ongoing Addiction Issues

City of Nashville Mayor John Cooper has announced that the city of Nashville will receive $23 million to recoup taxpayer funds allocated to emergency government responses to the opioid epidemic from 2017 through the present. The news comes in the wake of an historic $26 billion nationwide settlement with American opioid manufacturers and distributors reached

LieffCabraser2022-03-11T22:12:35+00:00March 11th, 2022|Prescription Drug Injuries, Public Good|

Lieff Cabraser and FeganScott File Lawsuit Alleging NCAA and University of San Francisco Fail to Protect Baseball Players from Sexual Misconduct by Coaches

On March 11, 2022, Lieff Cabraser and FeganScott filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three University of San Francisco (USF) Baseball student-athletes against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), USF, and two USF coaches, Nino Giarratano and Troy Nakamura, alleging a long-standing history of abuse of student-athletes by the

LieffCabraser2022-03-18T02:54:06+00:00March 11th, 2022|Sexual Abuse|

Treasury Report Reveals that Collusion and Other Illegal Anticompetitive Practices by Employers Suppress Worker Pay and Job Opportunities Across the U.S.

Government’s new report shows that employers face little competition for workers, allowing companies to pay employees substantially less than a so-called “free” market would manifest A new study has been released by the U.S. government revealing that despite a purported “tight” labor market that should give workers leverage, in fact the system is deeply flawed

LieffCabraser2022-03-09T02:29:41+00:00March 9th, 2022|Antitrust, Employment Law|

Jessica Moldovan to be Featured on American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Panel “The Threat to Roe, Then and Now” About the Current State of Reproductive Rights

On Wednesday, March 9th, 2022, Lieff Cabraser attorney Jessica Moldovan will speak at the AAML NY Chapter Annual March Program on the topic, “The Threat to Roe, Then and Now.” The CLE-credit program was set up by the Chapter’s Social Action Committee, and also features Slate Magazine’s News Director, Susan Matthews. As the program notes,

LieffCabraser2022-03-07T20:51:33+00:00March 7th, 2022|Firm News|

President Biden Signs “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment” Act into Law

On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, which restores survivors’ option to hold their abusers accountable in public court rather than in secretive, private arbitration (often funded by the defendant). The law prohibits employers from imposing the provisions of arbitration

LieffCabraser2022-03-04T21:23:40+00:00March 4th, 2022|Employment Law|

WHO Releases Detailed Report on Negative Impacts of Aggressive Formula Milk Marketing on New Parents

The World Health Organization and UNICEF have published a new report that summarizes the findings of a multi-national study examining the impact of formula milk marketing on infant feeding decisions and practices. The research study, the largest of its kind to date, draws on the experiences of over 8,000 women and more than 300 health

LieffCabraser2022-03-03T22:03:00+00:00March 3rd, 2022|Accidents & Safety Recalls, Infant & Child Injuries, Personal Injury|

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