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.

Daily Journal Names Anne Shaver a “Top Labor & Employment Lawyer” for 2022

The Daily Journal (subscription) has published its annual listing of “Top Labor & Employment Lawyers” which includes a 4th-time selection for Lieff Cabraser partner Anne B. Shaver. The Top Labor & Employment Lawyers award recognizes California’s “top attorneys who have made significant contributions to their field of practice.” Anne is one

2023-03-14T16:26:50+00:00June 29th, 2022|Awards, Firm News|

Lieff Cabraser Partner Anne Shaver Featured on Yahoo Money Live Discussing the Groundbreaking $118M Google Gender Class Action Settlement

Lieff Cabraser Partner Anne Shaver, who represents over 15,000 female Google employee plaintiffs in the Google Gender Discrimination case, was featured on Yahoo Finance’s Yahoo Money Live on Tuesday, June 21 in an interview discussing the case’s recent and historic $118 million settlement. The interview also included named plaintiff Kelli Wisuri, who worked at Google

2022-06-24T20:26:29+00:00June 24th, 2022|Employment Law, Firm News|

Plaintiffs Defeat Gilead’s Multiple Dismissal Motions in HIV Drug Kidney & Bone Injuries Litigation

On June 13, 2022, plaintiffs won a series of procedural victories in the kidney and bone injury lawsuit filed against pharma giant Gilead Sciences when California Superior Court Judge Andrew Y.S. Cheng denied three summary judgment motions filed by Gilead seeking to dismiss the litigation. Since the dangers from Gilead’s prescription medications (Truvada® and Atripla®) that

2022-06-23T17:08:50+00:00June 22nd, 2022|Personal Injury|

Lieff Cabraser and Co-Counsel File Federal Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit Against Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, and Softbank Group over T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

Federal lawsuit alleges American consumers have paid billions more for wireless services after one of the most anti-competitive acquisitions in history reduced the number of U.S. retail mobile carriers from four to three and combined two fierce competitors into a single behemoth with no incentive to compete CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On Friday, June 17, 2022, Lieff Cabraser

2022-08-23T16:00:00+00:00June 17th, 2022|Antitrust|

Volkswagen Agrees to $80M Proposed Settlement to Resolve Porsche Emissions Cheating Class Action Lawsuits

As reported by Law360, Volkswagen and Porsche have agreed to pay $80 million to settle claims that they manipulated nearly 500,000 gasoline-powered Porsche vehicles to overstate their advertised fuel economy and obtain fraudulent emissions certifications in an attempt to make them seem more eco-friendly than they actually were.

2022-06-17T18:51:31+00:00June 17th, 2022|Consumer Fraud|

Nine Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized by Lawdragon as “Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers” for 2022

We are pleased to announce that nine Lieff Cabraser partners were named to this year’s Lawdragon “500 Leading Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers” list: Lin Y. Chan, Kelly M. Dermody, Rachel Geman, Dean M. Harvey, Daniel M. Hutchinson, Michelle Lamy, Michael Levin-Gesundheit, Anne B. Shaver, and Tiseme Zegeye. This is Lawdragon’s fifth consecutive year of publishing its list of distinguished lawyers “who have

2022-06-16T22:23:30+00:00June 16th, 2022|Awards, Firm News|

Lieff Cabraser & Shavitz Law Group File Federal Collective and California Class Action Lawsuit Against Stryker Corporation for Failure to Pay Overtime Wages, Provide Meal and Rest Breaks, and Pay Business Expenses

The class, collective and representative lawsuit was filed on behalf of Stryker Sales Representatives and Sales Associates working across a wide range of Stryker medical product divisions in the U.S. On June 14, 2022, the law firms of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Shavitz Law Group, P.A. filed a lawsuit in the Central

2022-06-15T23:05:57+00:00June 15th, 2022|Employment Law|

Connecticut Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision in Medical Device Case

In a case focusing on Bausch & Lomb’s artificial in-eye lenses that can break inside patient’s eyes, causing vision that is equivalent to seeing the world through a kaleidoscope — at best — plaintiffs won a signal victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court when that authority held that the plaintiffs’ injury claims against Bausch &

Daily Journal Names Elizabeth Cabraser, Kelly Dermody and Richard Heimann “2022 Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California”

We are delighted to announce that the Daily Journal (subscription) has named Lieff Cabraser partners Elizabeth Cabraser, Kelly Dermody and Richard Heimann to its annual listing of “Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California.” The Top Plaintiff Lawyer awards acknowledge attorneys’ active involvement in “significant cases that make a difference in California and the world.”

2022-06-08T19:49:16+00:00June 8th, 2022|Awards, Firm News|