The Fall 2019 “Mass Torts Made Perfect Conference” is being held this week from October 22-24 at The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Lieff Cabraser partners Mark P. Chalos, Wendy R. Fleishman, and Sarah R. London will be participating in discussion panels at the conference.
On October 18th, 2019, Lieff Cabraser’s Mark P. Chalos, Managing Partner of the firm’s Nashville office, participated in a panel discussion at the American Bar Association’s 23rd Annual National Institute on Class Actions in Nashville entitled, “How Big is Your Audience? Crescendos and Diminuendos in the Class-Action World.” The extremely-well-received discussion was one of the
Lieff Cabraser partner Elizabeth Cabraser will serve as Featured Faculty at an academic symposium for attorneys, law professors and students, judges, law clerks, and public officials, entitled “Class Actions, Mass Torts, and MDLs: The Next 50 Years” taking place Nov. 1-2, 2019 at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland Oregon.
As reported by the Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson is recalling over 33,000 bottles of baby powder after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found small amounts of asbestos in a bottle purchased online.
Only three days remain before the October 21st claim filing deadline for victims of wildfires caused by PG&E power lines in 2017 and 2018. As reported by the Napa Valley Register, a grassroots group of Northern California fire victims held a press conference on the two-year anniversary of the first of the North Bay fires
Abused by his family and subjected to electroshock and forced gay conversion therapy, pro bono client sought asylum in the U.S. We are proud to announce that we received notice late last week that the firm’s pro bono client, John Doe, was granted asylum in the U.S. in the wake of years of torment and
The American Antitrust Institute has announced its selection of leading legal practitioners and economists to be recognized as honorees for the 2019 Antitrust Enforcement Awards, a list that includes the Lieff Cabraser team that worked on the Duke/UNC case: Dean M. Harvey, Kelly M. Dermody, Brendan P. Glackin, and Anne B.
Victims can now bring suit for much older abuse cases that would in the past have been blocked by statutes of limitation As reported by the Los Angeles Times and numerous other news outlets, California just passed a new law giving victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to report allegations and file lawsuits, and
Lieff Cabraser partner Mark P. Chalos will participate in a panel discussion entitled: “What You Need to Know About Representing Sexual Abuse Survivors” at the “Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP) Conference,” on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. MTMP conferences are designed for individuals working in the area of plaintiff mass torts
An estimated 70,000 Wildfire Victim Claims Still Unfiled with October 21 Rapidly Deadline Approaching The claim filing deadline for victims of wildfires caused by PG&E power lines in 2017 and 2018 is quickly approaching. As reported by the New York Times, as many as 70,000 victims eligible for compensation may receive nothing if they do