Lieff Cabraser represents employee plaintiffs in class action litigation against fast food chain McDonald’s over the company’s so-called “no-poach” employee pay and mobility restrictions which prohibit employees from seeking opportunities at other establishments within the vast McDonald’s chain. In August of 2023, the Seventh Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of
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
Plaintiffs hugely gratified by the appeals court’s reversal of the lower court’s dismissal of the employee restriction case.
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
At its annual Antitrust Enforcement Awards dinner in Washington, D.C., the American Antitrust Institute formally presented its selection of leading legal practitioners and economists to be recognized as honorees for the 2019 Antitrust Enforcement Awards, a list that includes the Lieff Cabraser team that worked on the Duke/UNC case: Dean M. Harvey, Kelly M. Dermody, Brendan P. Glackin,
The American Antitrust Institute has announced its selection of leading legal practitioners and economists to be recognized as honorees for the 2019 Antitrust Enforcement Awards, a list that includes the Lieff Cabraser team that worked on the Duke/UNC case: Dean M. Harvey, Kelly M. Dermody, Brendan P. Glackin, and Anne B.
On September 24, 2019, the U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Eagles granted final approval to the proposed settlement of the Duke/UNC “No Poach” case valued at $54.5 million. The settlement includes an unprecedented role for the United States Department of Justice to monitor and enforce extensive injunctive relief. Assistant Attorney General Delrahim remarked: “Permitting the
On May 20, 2019, a settlement valued at $54.5 million was filed in the class action lawsuit against Duke University over an alleged illegal employee-poaching agreement with the University of North Carolina. The proposed settlement came on the same day that the U.S. Department of Justice decided to intervene in the suit by filing a
Workers are recovering millions after challenging illegal anticompetitive “no-poach” agreements between companies that restrict employee mobility and depress salaries. Dean Harvey, plaintiff attorney and partner at Lieff Cabraser, provides detail on the successful 2015 “High Tech” Employees class action suit against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, and industry giants that resulted in a settlement valued at
As reported by Bloomberg Law, rail equipment companies Knorr-Bremse and Wabtec Railway Electronics are fighting a new rush of class action antitrust lawsuits in the employment realm after having settled allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice that they agreed not to hire each other’s employees in violation of the law. The lawsuits, which seek