We are proud to announce that at today’s 2021 ADL NY/NJ Legal Conference, Lieff Cabraser Managing Partner Steven E. Fineman was honored with the organization’s Edward Brodsky Founders Award. The award recognizes Steve’s enduring commitment to the ADL’s mission of stopping the defamation of the Jewish people, and securing justice and fair treatment to all.
In August 2021, the federal court approved a $19 million settlement on behalf of thousands of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging the two universities illegally colluded to avoid competing to hire professors and faculty members from each other, artificially suppressing salaries and employee mobility between the two
Lieff Cabraser Partner Kelly M. Dermody will speak at the American Bar Association’s 15th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles from November 10-13, 2021. Panelists will be discussing “How Transgender Women of Color Laid the Groundwork for Modern Equality Laws.” Some events will be
Lieff Cabraser Partner Phong-Chau G. Nguyen will be featured at Berkeley’s First-Generation Professionals Plaintiff-Side Work Panel this Wednesday, November 3rd, from 1-2pm, speaking about what plaintiff-side legal work entails. The panel will include pre-submitted questions as well as a live Q&A from audience members. All guests are welcome to join the event on campus in
Lieff Cabraser is a proud sponsor of the upcoming 18th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, hosted by the Tribal In-House Counsel Association and the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University. This year’s event will take place November 4 & 5 on Zoom.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has enacted legislation that protects employees in the state from retaliatory actions for reporting illegal or dangerous business activities. In meaningfully amending the prior law, there are multiple important and noteworthy aspects of the new law that together give crucial support to whistleblowers.
As reported by The Michigan Daily, the student sexual abuse case against Dr. Robert Anderson likely reflects the greatest number of sexual abuse allegations made against a single individual in U.S. history. The Daily’s article seeks to explain where things stand in the ongoing litigation against the University of Michigan for its mishandling of the situation.
Lieff Cabraser partner Kelly M. Dermody is featured on the latest episode of Today’s Worklplace, where she and fellow plaintiff-side class action attorney Jahan Sagafi join hosts Belinda Reed Shannon and Barbara Johnson to discuss the topic of systemic discrimination. Today’s Workplace is a podcast created to keep employers current
This case on behalf of non-medical faculty follows Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s successful similar action against Duke on behalf of medical faculty that led to a $54.5 million settlement in 2019 As reported by The News&Observer, thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University faculty members are getting paid from Duke as part of a $19
As reported by Law360 (subscription), The NFL has formally agreed to end the use of “race-norming,” race-based concussion testing, in the assessment of claims for payouts from the recent uncapped football concussion injuries settlement awarded to a class of former players who suffered painful and debilitating injuries from repetitive head traumas during their careers in