As reported by Law360, a pivotal legal victory has been achieved in the fight against the U.S. opioid crisis, with Walgreens agreeing to a $230 million payment to the city of San Francisco. The payment is the culmination of an intense bench trial which established Walgreens’ culpability for its part in the city’s opioid epidemic.
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,
Lieff Cabraser attorneys Elizabeth Cabraser, Wendy Fleishman, and Hannah Lazarz will be panelists at “A Class of Our Own,” a national conference on class action litigation for women litigators across the U.S. being held from Sunday May 7th through Tuesday May 9th at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Produced by Epiq legal and
Law360 has selected Lieff Cabraser attorney Avery Halfon to serve as one of the lawyers on its 2023 Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory board.
As reported by Law360 in its ongoing coverage of the JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris), extraordinary allegations have surfaced from a former JUUL executive who claims he was fired after raising concerns about the company’s marketing campaigns targeting young users.
The National Law Journal (subscription) has named Lieff Cabraser managing partner Steven E. Fineman as a 2023 Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazer. Steve is one of only 51 plaintiff-side practitioners in the U.S. to make the list. The award recognizes plaintiffs’ lawyers who “prove to be born leaders, and true agents of change.”
As reported by Law360, disturbing new details are emerging via evidence presented in the ongoing JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris) about the extent to which Altria and Juul allegedly conspired to further hook a new generation of young people on the nicotine in vaping products. According to a
Evidence presented in the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria (nee Philip Morris) in the national JUUL multidistrict litigation reveals new and shocking details about Altria’s buy-in to the tobacco vaping giant As reported by Law360, evidence unfolding in the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria in the national JUUL MDL
American Legal Media/Law.com have announced their 2023 Southeastern Legal Awards honorees, and we are pleased to report that Lieff Cabraser partners Mark Chalos and Andrew Kaufman have received well-deserved recognition.