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About LieffCabraser

"One of the nation's premier plaintiffs firms," Lieff Cabraser has 120 lawyers in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Munich. We have a widely diversified practice successfully representing plaintiffs in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities and financial fraud, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, product defect, consumer protection, antitrust, environmental and toxic exposures, False Claims Act, digital privacy and data security, and civil and human rights. Our clients include individuals, classes and groups of people, businesses, and public and private entities.

Lieff Cabraser Announces Historic $235M Comprehensive Settlement with Altria in National JUUL Youth E-Cigarette Predatory Advertising, Addiction and Injury Cases

Unprecedented in scope, speed, and significance, the global settlement, reached just after plaintiffs concluded their case in the bellwether trial in San Francisco, is the culmination of four years of a vast, unrelenting effort by plaintiffs and their counsel to hold Altria accountable for the 21st century’s ‘cigarettes redux’ youth nicotine plague May 10, 2023,

LieffCabraser2023-05-11T19:53:12+00:00May 10th, 2023|Consumer Fraud, Personal Injury, Public Good, Tobacco Litigation|

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, Outten & Golden, and Goldman Sachs Announce $215 Million Settlement of Long-Running Gender Bias Class Action

On May 8, 2023, the parties announced that Plaintiffs have reached an agreement with Defendants Goldman Sachs & Company LLC and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (collectively, “Goldman Sachs”), in which Goldman Sachs will pay $215 million to settle a gender discrimination class action lawsuit, Chen-Oster v. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, No. 10-cv-6950-AT-RWL, pending

LieffCabraser2023-05-09T15:10:24+00:00May 9th, 2023|Employment Law|

Historic Environmental Justice Case Settled Against the Alabama Department of Public Health

As reported by Reuters, the Biden administration recently announced a groundbreaking environmental justice agreement in Alabama, addressing racial discrimination against Black residents of Lowndes County. The first-of-its kind settlement comes after an 18-month federal probe revealed that the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) failed to provide adequate sewage systems and imposed fines on residents

LieffCabraser2023-05-08T19:43:44+00:00May 8th, 2023|Environmental Law, News|

Lieff Cabraser Attorneys to be Featured Panelists at Women Litigators Conference ‘A Class of Our Own’ in Nashville, Tennessee May 7-9, 2023

Lieff Cabraser attorneys Elizabeth Cabraser, Wendy Fleishman, and Hannah Lazarz will be panelists at “A Class of Our Own,” a national conference on class action litigation for women litigators across the U.S. being held from Sunday May 7th through Tuesday May 9th at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Produced by Epiq legal and

LieffCabraser2024-01-05T21:58:32+00:00May 5th, 2023|Firm News|

Avery Halfon Named to Law360’s 2023 Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Board

Law360 has selected Lieff Cabraser attorney Avery Halfon to serve as one of the lawyers on its 2023 Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory board.

LieffCabraser2023-05-04T18:45:05+00:00May 4th, 2023|Awards, Consumer Fraud, Firm News|

Fighting for Workers’ Rights: How Employee Rights Lawsuits Improve the Workplace for All

Employee rights lawsuits play a critical role in keeping businesses fair and inclusive. By challenging gender, race, and age discrimination, sexual and other harassment, and wage fraud and theft, these cases set precedents that force defendant organizations to create and maintain more equitable workplaces and fair cultures, while alerting other companies that they cannot escape

LieffCabraser2023-05-03T23:24:15+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Employment Law|

Ex-JUUL COO Claims He Was Fired For Sharing Concerns About JUUL Targeting Teen Users

As reported by Law360 in its ongoing coverage of the JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris), extraordinary allegations have surfaced from a former JUUL executive who claims he was fired after raising concerns about the company’s marketing campaigns targeting young users.

LieffCabraser2024-01-29T16:47:38+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Consumer Fraud, Firm News, Personal Injury|

National Law Journal Names Steven Fineman a “Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer” for 2023

The National Law Journal (subscription) has named Lieff Cabraser managing partner Steven E. Fineman as a 2023 Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazer. Steve is one of only 51 plaintiff-side practitioners in the U.S. to make the list. The award recognizes plaintiffs’ lawyers who “prove to be born leaders, and true agents of change.”

LieffCabraser2023-07-20T21:16:15+00:00May 1st, 2023|Firm News|

Unsilenced: A Nonprofit Dedicated to Protecting Youth from the Troubled Teen Industry

Unsilenced is a dedicated nonprofit organization combatting institutional child abuse by targeting the “Troubled Teen Industry” (TTI) – a pervasive network of unregulated congregate care facilities. While these facilities’s stated mission is to assist youth grappling with mental health and/or educational challenges, reports from families and residents allege that such teen care facilities all-too frequently

LieffCabraser2023-04-28T19:10:27+00:00April 28th, 2023|Sexual Abuse, Survivors|

Altria CEO Admits to Company’s Involvement in Increasing U.S. Youth Vaping Rates

As reported by Law360, disturbing new details are emerging via evidence presented in the ongoing JUUL multidistrict injury and predatory/fraudulent advertising litigation against Altria (formerly Philip Morris) about the extent to which Altria and Juul allegedly conspired to further hook a new generation of young people on the nicotine in vaping products. According to a

LieffCabraser2023-05-03T19:14:51+00:00April 28th, 2023|Consumer Fraud, Firm News, Personal Injury|

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