Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Headquarters | San Francisco |
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No. of offices | 4 |
No. of attorneys | 70+ |
Revenue | N/A |
Date founded | 1972 (San Francisco) |
Company type | LLP |
Website | www.lieffcabraser.com [14] |
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a national plaintiffs' law firm with offices in San Francisco,[1] New York City, Nashville, and Seattle.
Headquarters | San Francisco |
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No. of offices | 4 |
No. of attorneys | 70+ |
Revenue | N/A |
Date founded | 1972 (San Francisco) |
Company type | LLP |
Website | www.lieffcabraser.com [14] |
Practice areas
Lieff Cabraser represents plaintiffs in individual, class and group cases in the fields of law of antitrust and intellectual property, aviation, business, civil rights, consumer protection, defective products, digital privacy and data security, employment discrimination and unfair employment practices, environmental and toxic exposure, False Claims Act and whistleblower claims, personal injury and mass torts, and securities and investor fraud. The firm is one of the largest in the United States that represents only plaintiffs.
Reputation and recognition
In the 2016 edition of its annual list of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the U.S., The National Law Journal once again selected Lieff Cabraser.[5] In compiling the list, The National Law Journal examined recent verdicts and settlements and looked for firms "representing the best qualities of the plaintiffs' bar and that demonstrated unusual dedication and creativity." This was the fourteenth consecutive year since 2003 that Lieff Cabraser has received Hot List honors.[6]
From 2011 through 2016, Best Lawyers and U.S. News selected Lieff Cabraser as a "Law Firm of the Year," including recognition for Mass Torts Litigation/Class Actions and Employment Law.[7]
In 2016, Law360 selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the Top 50 law firms nationwide for litigation.[8] This list included firms over twenty times Lieff Cabraser's size, and Law360 highlighted the firm's "laser focus," noting that Lieff Cabraser routinely finds itself "facing off against some of the largest and strongest defense law firms in the world." Also in 2016, Benchmark Litigation named Lieff Cabraser as one of the "Top 10 Plaintiffs' Firms in America"[9] and in 2017 named founding partner Elizabeth Cabraser its "Plaintiff Attorney of the Year."[10]
In 2018, Law360 selected Lieff Cabraser as one of five firms for its Practice Group of the Year Award for "Class Actions."[11]
Community activity
Lieff Cabraser sponsors the Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship Program conducted by the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF). The firm also supports the National Association for Public Interest Law fellowship program. Fellowships made possible by Lieff Cabraser's sponsorship have included work at the East Bay Community Law Center in Oakland, California, the Employment Law Center in San Francisco, California, and the NOW Legal Defense in New York, New York.
In 2007, Lieff Cabraser attorneys assisted in the launching of the Carver HEARTS Project. The project is a partnership between interested community members, San Francisco's George Washington Carver Elementary School, and UCSF's Department of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to provide a therapist skilled in treating trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on-site at Carver Elementary School.
From 1991 through the end of 2011, Lieff Cabraser underwrote the radio series, "Perspectives," airing on the public broadcasting station KQED-FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. The series offers listeners social and political opinions on a broad spectrum of contemporary issues.[12] The firm continues to provide financial support for programs on KQED-FM.