We are proud to announce that at today’s 2021 ADL NY/NJ Legal Conference, Lieff Cabraser Managing Partner Steven E. Fineman was honored with the organization’s Edward Brodsky Founders Award. The award recognizes Steve’s enduring commitment to the ADL’s mission of stopping the defamation of the Jewish people, and securing justice and fair treatment to all.
In August 2021, the federal court approved a $19 million settlement on behalf of thousands of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging the two universities illegally colluded to avoid competing to hire professors and faculty members from each other, artificially suppressing salaries and employee mobility between the two
Lieff Cabraser is a proud sponsor of the upcoming 18th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, hosted by the Tribal In-House Counsel Association and the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University. This year’s event will take place November 4 & 5 on Zoom.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has enacted legislation that protects employees in the state from retaliatory actions for reporting illegal or dangerous business activities. In meaningfully amending the prior law, there are multiple important and noteworthy aspects of the new law that together give crucial support to whistleblowers.
As reported by The Michigan Daily, the student sexual abuse case against Dr. Robert Anderson likely reflects the greatest number of sexual abuse allegations made against a single individual in U.S. history. The Daily’s article seeks to explain where things stand in the ongoing litigation against the University of Michigan for its mishandling of the situation.
Plaintiff owners and lessees suing General Motors over allegedly defective air conditioning units in their GM vehicles scored a procedural victory as U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Leitman declined defendant GM’s motion to dismiss the litigation. As reported by Law360, the ruling comes after GM argued that the various state laws of each class member
This case on behalf of non-medical faculty follows Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s successful similar action against Duke on behalf of medical faculty that led to a $54.5 million settlement in 2019 As reported by The News&Observer, thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University faculty members are getting paid from Duke as part of a $19
As reported by Law360 (subscription), The NFL has formally agreed to end the use of “race-norming,” race-based concussion testing, in the assessment of claims for payouts from the recent uncapped football concussion injuries settlement awarded to a class of former players who suffered painful and debilitating injuries from repetitive head traumas during their careers in
Congratulations to The R-23s, and to all the musicians “Banding Together” who raised nearly $118,000 for the Family Violence Appellate Project towards its fight to save victims of domestic violence in California and help them thrive. (It’s worth noting that the original goal was $100,000, which was reached before the show even started, and then
We are pleased to announce that the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) and the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL) have selected Lieff Cabraser partner Lin Y. Chan as the very first recipient of the Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award. The criteria for the award include “a demonstrated track record of integrity and collegiality,” “an active interest in mentoring