Selection of 12 jurors in the trial is expected to be completed by the end of the day, and opening arguments in this first bellwether trial, brought against Altria on behalf of the San Francisco Unified School District, will commence Monday April 24 On Friday, April 21, 2023, jury selection will
We are delighted to announce that Lieff Cabraser Nashville Managing Partner Mark Chalos has been recognized for the eighth time in the Nashville Post’s “In Charge 2023: Legal” list of influential legal professionals.
The California Daily Journal’s 2023 CLAY award recognizes Lieff Cabraser, Robbins Geller, and the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office for their collective efforts in winning a landmark opioids bench trial against Walgreens pharmacy for substantially contributing to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco We are proud to announce that the California Daily Journal/California Lawyer has
Forced arbitration, the scourge of fair and open adjudication, is greatly favored by the corporate defendants sued for fraud and misconduct by consumers, corporate defendants who fund and almost always win arbitration’s closed proceedings that occur without a judge, jury, or public scrutiny Earlier this week, the California Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 365, closing
As reported by Law360, on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, U.S. District Judge Benita Y. Pearson of the Northern District of Ohio issued an order consolidating 31 separate lawsuits relating to the February 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio.
Lawdragon has published its list of the “500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America” for 2023, an honor roll that includes a record 27 Lieff Cabraser lawyers. The Lawdragon consumer law guide, first published in 2007 and annually since 2019, offers the publication’s take on “the best of the U.S. plaintiff bar who specialize in helping consumers get
On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, Lieff Cabraser Munich office managing partner Katharina Kolb will take part in the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section webinar, “Global Antitrust Litigation Update: Trucks, Bucks and More.”
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
We are pleased to report that Lieff Cabraser partner Phong-Chau G. Nguyen has been selected as one of two attorneys to serve on Strafford’s Class Action Advisory Board for 2023.
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.