We are pleased to announce that Lieff Cabraser partner Michael Levin-Gesundheit has been named to the California Daily Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40” list for 2024, recognizing him as one of California’s best lawyers under 40. The Journal highlights Michael’s leadership in the prescription opioids litigation, particularly his role on the San Francisco opioid bellwether team,
On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in New York on behalf of neuroscientist Lucina Uddin, challenging six major academic publishers—Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer. The suit, brought on behalf of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, claims
On Thursday, September 19, 2024, Lieff Cabraser partner Jallé Dafa will participate in a panel discussion presented by the Litigation Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco entitled, “Effective Settlement Conferences: Best Practices from Federal and State Judges on How to Prepare for and Participate Effectively in Settlement Conferences and Mediation Sessions.”
Lieff Cabraser partner Kenny Byrd is Co-Chair of the Conference and will serve as moderator on four panels On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, HarrisMartin will host its Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Conference at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. This premier event brings together legal experts to discuss the latest advancements and trends in MDL.
Lieff Cabraser partners Sarah R. London and Phong-Chau G. Nguyen will be speaking at the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) Class Action Seminar in Newport Beach on Friday September 27, 2024. Sarah will moderate the “Judges Panel Roundtable,” while Phong will participate in a panel discussion on “California Competition in Consumer Claims.”
The Daily Journal has published its annual listing of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California (subscription),” which includes a sixth-time selection for Lieff Cabraser partner Richard M. Heimann and a 19th-time selection for Lieff Cabraser partner Elizabeth J. Cabraser. Both are featured in the Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers in California” special edition, which discusses their past successes and
We are pleased to announce that Lieff Cabraser has been named winner of the New York Law Journal’s (NYLJ) “Class Action Litigation Department of the Year” award for 2024. The award is part of the NYLJ’s annual New York Legal Awards, which recognize “the best and brightest in New York’s legal community.”
On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Lieff Cabraser partners Kevin Budner and Phong-Chau Nguyen will present a live Strafford interactive CLE video webinar on “Class Action Ethical Challenges: Intra-Class Conflicts, Communication With Class Members, Attorney Fees, and More.” Subtitled “Avoiding Legal Ethics Violations and Malpractice Liability,” the course will provide class action attorneys with guidance on
Lawsuit alleges Anthropic’s Claude AI language models compromise authors’ ability to earn a living via improper and unauthorized ingestion and use of their books On August 19, 2024, Lieff Cabraser, Susman Godfrey, LLP and Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP filed a federal class action copyright infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of California on
The Best Lawyers in America has announced its 2025 recognition of “outstanding attorney leaders” in the U.S., a list that we are proud to note includes thirty-eight Lieff Cabraser lawyers. The publication’s 31st edition spotlights the top 5% of private practicing attorneys in the U.S., and is based on more than 23 million peer evaluations. This