Law Rocks returns to San Francisco for its 12th annual concert on Thursday, March 19, at The Great American Music Hall, one of the city’s most iconic venues. The event brings together five bands made up of local legal professionals for a high-energy “Battle of the Bands” benefiting Bay Area nonprofits.
A recent article in The Cut highlights how the Trump administration’s mass federal layoffs have disproportionately affected women — upending the lives of pregnant workers and those on maternity leave, with some losing jobs, benefits, and financial stability at critical times. The piece notes that many of the agencies hit hardest by reductions are majority-women
As reported by Courthouse News, a federal judge in San Francisco signaled she may extend an injunction blocking the Trump administration from terminating University of California research grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, finding the DOE’s actions closely mirrored earlier grant cancellations she had already halted. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the DOE
Class action complaint alleges unlawful targeting of employees associated with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2025 CONTACT: ACLU-D.C. media @ acludc.org Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein: media @ LCHB.com Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch: liz @ rep-ink.com
The Southeast Complex Litigation Conference provided an overview of aggregate litigation, Whistleblower cases, Mass Torts, effective advocacy At the discussion included an overview of aggregate litigation types and how these legal mechanisms solve problems for both plaintiffs and defendants alike to create a “global peace.”
Lieff Cabraser partners Tiseme Zegeye and Mark Chalos, and Isaac Conner of Manson Johnson Conner will explore how complex litigation can be a powerful tool for change in our communities in a CLE hosted by Napier-Looby Bar Association on Oct. 28. All experienced litigators in the field of impact litigation — the attorneys will share
The vitriol aimed at our judiciary is undermining its independence and threatening our constitutional rights. By Mark Chalos Guest Columnist to The Tennessean, published Oct. 8, 2025 Few safeguards are as critical as the courts are to preserving our constitutional rights. Courts have, throughout our nation’s history, been the last line of defense against overreaching
After winning a preliminary injunction reversing the U.S. government’s sudden and indiscriminate termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants, plaintiffs in the UC researcher class action litigation have won another court victory via yesterday’s federal district court Order finding that the government’s subsequent “suspensions” of the same research contracts in an attempt
Thursday, June 5, 2025 (SAN FRANCISCO)—A group of six University of California faculty and other researchers have filed a class action in federal court against the Trump Administration on behalf of all UC researchers whose previously approved agency grants were terminated pursuant to Executive Orders or other directives of President Trump, as implemented through the
As lawyers, we swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. We also undertook a duty “to uphold legal process,” and to “further the public’s… confidence in the rule of law and the justice system,” because “legal institutions in a constitutional democracy depend on popular participation and support to maintain