New DOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidelines for Labor Markets
Portions of the new antitrust guidelines were expressly based on cases Lieff Cabraser successfully litigated over the last decade
Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Named ‘Legal Lions of the Week’ by Law360 for Win in McDonald’s “No-poach” Employee Pay Suppression Case
The Lieff Cabraser team led by partners Dean Harvey, Anne Shaver, Lin Chan, and associate attorney Jessica Moldovan recently won a significant victory and thereby securing a spot in last week’s Law360 “Legal Lions” listing. This recognition followed the Seventh Circuit panel’s decision on August 25 to overturn the lower court’s initial dismissal of Lieff
Plaintiff-Employees’ Claims Move Forward In DaVita “No-Poach” Labor-Antitrust MDL Despite Defendants’ Latest Efforts to Dismiss
As reported by Law360 (subscription), plaintiffs represented by Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel were successful in defeating DaVita and other health care providers’ attempts to get employee no-poach claims thrown out of the federal class action lawsuit alleging employee compensation and mobility were criminally suppressed at these companies via illegal agreements with competitors not to compete for each other’s
Settlement Distribution From Duke/UNC “No Poach” Employee Anticompetition Lawsuit Highlights Structural Inequities in Higher Education
In August 2021, the federal court approved a $19 million settlement on behalf of thousands of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging the two universities illegally colluded to avoid competing to hire professors and faculty members from each other, artificially suppressing salaries and employee mobility between the two
UNC And Duke Faculty Receive Payments from $19 Million Settlement of Class Action Labor Antitrust “No-Poach” Lawsuit
This case on behalf of non-medical faculty follows Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s successful similar action against Duke on behalf of medical faculty that led to a $54.5 million settlement in 2019 As reported by The News&Observer, thousands of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University faculty members are getting paid from Duke as part of a $19
North Carolina’s Live Oak Bank and Two Tech Spin-offs Accused of Unlawful “No-Poach” Agreement in Class Action Suit
Lieff Cabraser has filed a class action labor antitrust “no-poach” lawsuit against Live Oak Bank and its two tech spin-offs, Apiture and nCino, on behalf of a former employee of two of the companies and at least seven hundred potential class members. As reported by the Triangle Business Journal, the lawsuit alleges that Live Oak’s
Duke and UNC Accused of Unlawful “No-Poach” Agreement in Class Action Lawsuit
This case on behalf of non-medical faculty follows Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s successful similar action against Duke on behalf of medical faculty that led to a $54.5 million settlement in 2019. May 27, 2020, Durham, North Carolina—(BUSINESSWIRE)—Lieff Cabraser, Edelstein & Payne, and Elliot Morgan Parsonage announce the filing of a class action labor