Lieff Cabraser partner Kelly Dermody is featured in a recent Ms. Magazine article examining the continued prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the financial services industry, even amid renewed scrutiny following disclosures involving Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to the industry.
A recent article in Hammer & Hope highlights the real-world impact of widespread federal workforce cuts following executive actions targeting employees with even the most tenuous connections to programs that included diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The piece documents how nearly 300,000 federal jobs were slashed in 2025, with data showing that Black women were
Firm lawyers will also host and facilitate multiple content blocks at the event Lieff Cabraser partners Anne B. Shaver, Tiseme G. Zegeye, and Jessica A. Moldovan will speak at the 2026 American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, to be held March 17-20, 2026 in New
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