The Daily Journal (subscription) has named its Top Antitrust Lawyers in California for 2021, a list that includes Lieff Cabraser partners Lin Y. Chan and Dean M. Harvey. Lin and Dean are two of only twenty-seven antitrust law practitioners to make the list, and are featured in the Daily Journal’s “2021 Top Antitrust Lawyers in
We are pleased to announce that Lieff Cabraser partner Tiseme Zegeye has been honored with a 2021 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award by the American Constitution Society – Bay Area Lawyer Chapter. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, November, 9th, 2021 at the 44th Annual Minority Bar Coalition (MBC) Unity Awards.
In July 2021, digital media platform Horse Network launched #WeRideTogether, a powerful PSA campaign and an in-depth microsite designed to bring much needed awareness, education, and resources to help counter sexual misconduct and abuse in the equestrian world. “#WeRideTogether is a true movement and cultural shift,” notes the organization, one that “demands increased accountability from
Lieff Cabraser partners Kelly Dermody, Rachel Geman, and Anne Shaver will be featured as distinguished speakers at the 15th Annual ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference beginning this Wednesday, November 10 and running through November 13, 2021, in Los Angeles at The Beverly Hilton. As the Section Chair, Kelly
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced it will be paying out a whistleblower award to a former Hyundai safety engineer who reported an engine defect in 2016, which Hyundai failed to address, that was causing vehicles to seize up and even catch fire. NHTSA found that Korean car manufacturer Hyundai and its
Fortune has published a moving opinion piece written by Williams College alumna Summer-Solstice Thomas, a former track and field co-captain, a 6-time All-American, and conference nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year 2020. Thomas writes that “it could have been me,” in detailing the allegations involved in the sexual abuse class action lawsuit against the NCAA
U.S. News & Best Lawyers has announced its “Best Law Firm” rankings for 2022. The listings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes “the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in the field, and review of additional information provided by law firms.” Lieff Cabraser’s Tier 1 rankings for 2022 are:
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