The NLRB found merit in former SpaceX employees’ charges that SpaceX unlawfully coerced, interrogated, surveilled, and fired them for working collectively to stop sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
The 17th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference is being held on November 8–11, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. This Conference is the Section of Labor and Employment Law’s signature event of the year, offering cutting-edge and in-depth programs covering developments across the full range of labor and employment law topics along with numerous networking opportunities.
The settlement represents the largest gender employment case settled before a plaintiffs’ verdict at trial, and one of the largest of any type of employment dispute As reported by Law360 (subscription) and other media outlets, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres granted final approval to a proposed $215 million settlement in
Five women full professors from historically women’s college file class action suit over systemic pay disparities, with 35 additional women full professors saying they share the class representatives’ grievances about Vassar’s pattern of pay discrimination Poughkeepsie, NY, Aug. 30, 2023—As classes began this week, most of the women full professors at Vassar College spoke out
American Legal Media and Law.com have named the Plaintiff Litigation team, co-led by Lieff Cabraser San Francisco office Managing Partner Kelly Dermody, as “Litigators of the Week” for their work in securing a $215 million settlement of the long-running Goldman Sachs gender discrimination case. Historic for multiple reasons, the settlement is one of the largest
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,
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
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
Lieff Cabraser partner Dean M. Harvey will be featured as a distinguished speaker at the American Bar Association’s 2023 Litigation Section Annual Conference taking place April 19–21, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. On day one of the conference (4/19), Dean will speak on a panel entitled “Hands Off My Human Capital! What You Need to Know about Antitrust
As reported in Law360, plaintiffs represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel have defeated Save Mart Supermarkets’ attempts to get workers’ claims thrown out of the federal class action lawsuit alleging the grocery chain denied their employees promised retiree medical benefits. The largest regional grocer in California, Save Mart operates over two-hundred Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx stores and