Law.com has announced the finalists and honorees for its 2026 California Legal Awards, recognizing leading law firms and legal professionals who are shaping the future of the profession through innovation, leadership, and outstanding advocacy.
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Motley Rice LLC, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and other firms triumphed after a California federal judge on Monday denied social media companies’ request for a summary judgment win on a school district’s claims that it was forced to spend money to combat students’ purported social media addictions.
Lieff Cabraser partners Elizabeth Cabraser, Lexi Hazam, Mark Chalos, and Wendy Fleishmann will be featured speakers at the upcoming 2025 Spring Mass Torts Made Perfect Seminar, to be held April 1-3, 2025 at the Wynn Las Vegas. Mass Torts Made Perfect is a place for plaintiff attorneys and their paralegals to connect, network, and learn the latest insights
The Lieff Cabraser team led by partner Lexi J. Hazam was recognized as “Legal Lions of the Week” by Law360 (subscription) after achieving a key ruling in the Teen Social Media Addiction multidistrict litigation. On November 15, a California federal judge ruled that Meta Platforms and other social media companies must face the majority of public nuisance
We are pleased to announce that the Daily Journal (subscription) has named Lieff Cabraser partner Lexi J. Hazam to its annual listing of “Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California.” The awards recognize the top-performing plaintiff lawyers across the state.
As reported in Yahoo! Life, on September 12, 2024, the Lansing School District in Michigan took a declarative step by filing a lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap, Inc., joining a growing number of schools across the country that are pushing back against the influence of social media on students.
The new state lawsuits follow preexisting multidistrict litigation in federal court in San Francisco original filed by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel As reported widely across the media, a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general that includes California, New York, Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois and related actions from Massachusetts, Tennessee, Mississippi and
The Daily Journal has published its annual listing of “Top Women Lawyers in California,” which includes an extraordinary 15th-time selection for Lieff Cabraser partner Elizabeth J. Cabraser and a third-time selection for Lieff Cabraser partner Lexi J. Hazam. The Top Women Lawyers award recognizes “exemplary female attorney trailblazers and change
The National Law Journal has announced the finalists for its 2023 “Elite Trial Lawyers” awards, and we are pleased to announce that Lieff Cabraser has been named a finalist for “Plaintiffs Firm of the Year.” The firm has also been named a finalist in five practice categories: Class Action, Consumer Protection, Discrimination, Products Liability, and
On November 9, 2022, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California issued an order naming Lieff Cabraser partner Lexi J. Hazam as Co-Lead Counsel for plaintiffs in the nationwide multidistrict teen/youth social media addiction litigation alleging that social media apps such as Facebook and TikTok cause