Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Named ‘Legal Lions of the Week’ by Law360 for Win in McDonald’s “No-poach” Employee Pay Suppression Case

The Lieff Cabraser team led by partners Dean Harvey, Anne Shaver, Lin Chan, and associate attorney Jessica Moldovan recently won a significant victory and thereby securing a spot in last week’s Law360 “Legal Lions” listing. This recognition followed the Seventh Circuit panel’s decision on August 25 to overturn the lower court’s initial dismissal of Lieff

2023-09-05T22:39:24+00:00September 5th, 2023|Firm News|

Plaintiff-Employees’ Claims Move Forward In DaVita “No-Poach” Labor-Antitrust MDL Despite Defendants’ Latest Efforts to Dismiss

As reported by Law360 (subscription), plaintiffs represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel were successful in defeating DaVita and other health care providers’ attempts to get employee no-poach claims thrown out of the federal class action lawsuit alleging employee compensation and mobility were criminally suppressed at these companies via illegal agreements with competitors not to compete for each other’s

2022-09-27T18:13:08+00:00September 27th, 2022|Antitrust, Firm News|

Settlement Distribution From Duke/UNC “No Poach” Employee Anticompetition Lawsuit Highlights Structural Inequities in Higher Education

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

2021-11-02T21:36:40+00:00November 2nd, 2021|Antitrust, Employment Law|

UNC And Duke Faculty Receive Payments from $19 Million Settlement of Class Action Labor Antitrust “No-Poach” Lawsuit

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

2021-11-02T18:01:17+00:00October 27th, 2021|Antitrust, Employment Law|

North Carolina’s Live Oak Bank and Two Tech Spin-offs Accused of Unlawful “No-Poach” Agreement in Class Action Suit

Lieff Cabraser has filed a class action labor antitrust “no-poach” lawsuit against Live Oak Bank and its two tech spin-offs, Apiture and nCino, on behalf of a former employee of two of the companies and at least seven hundred potential class members. As reported by the Triangle Business Journal, the lawsuit alleges that Live Oak’s

2021-05-10T23:17:25+00:00March 16th, 2021|Antitrust, Employment Law|

Duke and UNC Accused of Unlawful “No-Poach” Agreement in Class Action Lawsuit

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. May 27, 2020, Durham, North Carolina—(BUSINESSWIRE)—Lieff Cabraser, Edelstein & Payne, and Elliot Morgan Parsonage announce the filing of a class action labor

2020-05-27T10:42:47+00:00May 27th, 2020|Antitrust, Employment Law|

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