Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, Outten & Golden, and Goldman Sachs Announce $215 Million Settlement of Long-Running Gender Bias Class Action

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

2023-05-09T15:10:24+00:00May 9th, 2023|Employment Law|
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Fighting for Workers’ Rights: How Employee Rights Lawsuits Improve the Workplace for All

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

2023-05-03T23:24:15+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Employment Law|
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Dean Harvey to Discuss “Antitrust in Labor and Employment Markets” at Upcoming ABA 2023 Litigation Section Annual Conference

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

2023-04-18T19:48:29+00:00April 18th, 2023|Antitrust, Employment Law, Firm News|
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Plaintiffs in ERISA Class Action Against Save Mart Supermarkets Defeat Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss the Lawsuit

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

2023-04-11T19:55:33+00:00April 11th, 2023|Employment Law|
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Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Share Their Expertise at the ABA 2023 National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law

On March 28th, 2023, the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law opened its 2023 National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference, which runs through March 31st, brings together highly esteemed legal professionals to discuss cutting-edge legal and policy developments in Equal Employment Opportunity-related workplace issues. Presented

2023-03-29T19:58:00+00:00March 29th, 2023|Employment Law, Firm News|
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Victory for Plaintiffs as Judge Preserves Key Claims in AMEC Retirement Plan Class Action Lawsuit

As reported by Law360, a pretrial hearing in Tennessee has resulted in a victory for the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) and its retirement plan managers. The judge preserved many state law allegations, including those related to AMEC’s failure to monitor the church plan’s retirement plan manager,

2023-03-23T16:22:43+00:00March 23rd, 2023|Employment Law|
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Rachel Geman and Jallé Dafa to Speak at ABA 2023 Workplace & Occupational Safety & Health Law Committee Midwinter Meeting

Lieff Cabraser attorneys Rachel Geman and Jallé Dafa will speak at the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law, Workplace and Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee 2023 Midwinter Meeting taking place March 7, 2023—March 10, 2023 in San Diego. The program will feature presentations by panelists representing management,

2023-03-02T02:36:18+00:00March 1st, 2023|Employment Law, Firm News|
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Public Justice Spotlights Anne Shaver and Michelle Lamy for their Work in the Historic Google Gender Class Action

As part of its Member Spotlight series, Public Justice recently sat down with Lieff Cabraser partners Anne Shaver and Michelle Lamy to discuss their roles in the groundbreaking Google gender discrimination class action brought on behalf of more than 15,000 female Google employees in California. In October 2022, final approval was granted to a $118

2023-02-28T17:55:27+00:00January 27th, 2023|Employment Law, Firm News|
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Lieff Cabraser Profiled by Law360 as an Employment Law “Practice Group of the Year”

Law360 has published an in-depth profile on Lieff Cabraser’s Employment Law practice group as part of its recognition of the firm as a 2022 Employment Law Group of the Year. Law360’s piece highlights Lieff Cabraser’s work advocating for thousands of clients in workers’ rights disputes, and garnering some impressive victories for its clients via that advocacy.

2023-02-28T17:56:41+00:00January 19th, 2023|Awards, Employment Law, Firm News|
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