A recent article in The Cut highlights how the Trump administration’s mass federal layoffs have disproportionately affected women — upending the lives of pregnant workers and those on maternity leave, with some losing jobs, benefits, and financial stability at critical times. The piece notes that many of the agencies hit hardest by reductions are majority-women
As reported by Courthouse News, a federal judge in San Francisco signaled she may extend an injunction blocking the Trump administration from terminating University of California research grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, finding the DOE’s actions closely mirrored earlier grant cancellations she had already halted. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the DOE
Class action complaint alleges unlawful targeting of employees associated with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2025 CONTACT: ACLU-D.C. media @ acludc.org Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein: media @ LCHB.com Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch: liz @ rep-ink.com
Thursday, June 5, 2025 (SAN FRANCISCO)—A group of six University of California faculty and other researchers have filed a class action in federal court against the Trump Administration on behalf of all UC researchers whose previously approved agency grants were terminated pursuant to Executive Orders or other directives of President Trump, as implemented through the
On Thursday April 24, 2025, Lieff Cabraser partner Anne Shaver will be speaking at the 58th Annual Pacific Coast Labor & Employment Law Conference on “Advanced 30(b)(6) Tactics for the Practitioner’s Toolkit” and “Restrictive Covenants and the New Era of Antitrust.”
Portions of the new antitrust guidelines were expressly based on cases Lieff Cabraser successfully litigated over the last decade
On Friday afternoon, a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in White Plains, New York, denied a motion by Vassar College to dismiss the equal pay claim in a class action lawsuit challenging long-standing gender-based pay disparities between Vassar’s male and female full professors. The order followed a longer ruling from the bench, which
The eight plaintiffs in this suit challenged Musk’s “dark ages” mentality and the shockingly improper workplace culture at the company in an Open Letter to SpaceX and were terminated for doing so. Los Angeles, CA–(BUSINESSWIRE)–On June 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Burgess Law Offices filed an eight-count complaint against SpaceX and
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
Firm lawyers will also present and lead multiple panel discussions at the event