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Our Firm
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a fifty-plus attorney law firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide since 1972. We have offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville.
We have also represented clients worldwide in cases filed in the United States. For Canadian cases, we are associated with the Toronto, Ontario law firm of Rochon Genova, which represents plaintiffs in a wide range of civil cases.
Our Practice
Lieff Cabraser has a comprehensive and diverse practice that is unique among law firms that represent only plaintiffs. Our cases typically involve dangerous or defective products, securities and investment fraud, consumer fraud and false advertising, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, environmental damage and toxic exposures, antitrust and ERISA violations and the abuse of human and civil rights.
Lieff Cabraser is among the largest law firms in the United States that represents only plaintiffs. Our firm enjoys a national reputation for professional integrity and the efficient and responsible prosecution of our clients' claims.
We possess sophisticated legal skills and the financial resources necessary for the handling of large, complex cases. We take great pride in our innovative approach to the practice of law and our firm's leadership role in cases resulting in landmark decisions and precedent-setting rulings.
For the last five years, the National Law Journal selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation. In compiling the list, the National Law Journal examined recent verdicts and settlements in addition to overall track records. As noted by U.S. District Court Judge William H. Alsup, our firm is "one of the foremost law firms in the country in both securities law and class actions."
Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
In our Employment Discrimination and Unfair Employment Practices Group, we represent employees in class actions alleging discrimination by employers based on age, race, or gender. We also represent employees who have been the victims of unfair employment practices, including cases against employers who fail to pay workers the wages to which they are entitled.
Notable recent successes by Lieff Cabraser on behalf of employees in employment discrimination lawsuits include the representation of a class of approximately 25,000 female employees of, and applicants for employment with, Home Depot. In 1998, the Court approved a settlement of the case in which Home Depot agreed to modify its hiring, promotion and compensation practices, and paid $87.5 million, one of the highest amounts ever paid in a gender discrimination case.
We represented a class of African-American part-time employees in a racial discrimination lawsuit against United Parcel Service in the company's Pacific and Northwest regions. In 1999, a $12 million settlement was reached with UPS.
Our current overtime pay, employment discrimination, unfair employment practices and ERISA cases include:
 
Litigation with a Social Purpose
Since our founding thirty years ago, we have been committed to redress corporate misconduct, to achieve justice for investors, consumers, employees, to promote safe products -- including drugs and medical devices -- and to protect our environment and the human rights of citizens worldwide. We have participated in the trial or settlement of over 250 complex and class actions and thousands of individual cases.
As part of our long standing objective of advancing consumer rights, we are spearheading litigation intended to halt alleged illegal and deceptive business practices -- often targeted at persons of low income or having poor credit histories -- by several of the nation's top credit card and mortgage loan servicing companies.
Many of our cases start as the result of a complaint by one or a handful of persons. If you have been harmed by a fraud or deceptive practice, please feel free to contact us.
Our Commitment to the Community
Lieff Cabraser proudly supports the goals of civil rights, human rights, increased access to legal services, and initiatives by the legal community to improve civil justice.
Among the recent awards Lieff Cabraser has received was the 1998 Navigator of Civil Rights Award presented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. We sponsor the Bay Area Minority Law Student Scholarship Program conducted by the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF). We also support 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 addition to BASF, Lieff Cabraser supports the following groups:
Finally, since 1991, we have underwritten 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 opinion on a broad spectrum of contemporary issues.
San Francisco
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275 Battery St., Ste 3000
San Francisco, CA 94111-3339
Tel. (415) 956-1000
Fax. (415) 956-1008
New York
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New York, NY 10017-2024
Tel. (212) 355-9500
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Nashville
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150 Fourth Ave. N., Ste. 1650
Nashville, TN 37219-2415
Tel. (615) 313-9000
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