Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a fifty-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. We are a law firm that represents only plaintiffs. For over thirty years, our trial lawyers have successfully represented plaintiffs in individual, class and group cases in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities fraud, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, product defect, antitrust, consumer protection, aviation, environmental and toxic exposure, and human rights.

Our attorneys enjoy a national reputation for professional integrity and the successful prosecution of our clients' claims. We possess sophisticated legal skills and the financial resources necessary to handle large, complex cases, and to take on some of the world's largest corporations. For the last seven years, we have been ranked as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the United States by the National Law Journal.

Lieff Cabraser's Global Network of Websites

Lieff Cabraser.com is our firm's main website, providing information on our comprehensive and diverse practice, including the areas of law for:

• Antitrust
• Consumer Protection
• Employment Law
• International Law & Human Rights Practice
• Product Defects
• Toxic Exposure

Practice-Area Specific Websites

• Lieff Cabraser Securities profiles our legal services for investors who suffered losses due to securities fraud and other financial wrongdoing.
• Personal Injury Lawyer America provides extensive information from our trial lawyers for persons injured by the intentional or negligent conduct of another or by defective products, including faulty medical devices, dangerous prescription drugs and dangerous over-the-counter drugs.
• US Auto Injury Law contains government vehicle safety recommendations, as well as explanations from our trial attorneys on why manufacturers are liable for SUV rollover accidents, 15 passenger van crashes, tire tread separations and other types of car accidents and fires.

Legal Information Weblogs (Blogs)

• Injury Law News & Legal Information Blog
• Kingston Coal Ash Spill Blog
• Medtronic Heart Lead Recall Blog
• Yamaha Rhino Rollover and Recall Blog

Lawsuit-Specific Websites

Employment/Employee Rights Cases

• AFjustice.com describes the settlement of the employment class action lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against African-American, Latino and Asian-American employees and job applicants.
• American Family Overtime Lawsuit provides information on the class action suit against American Family by workers for overtime pay.
• Costco Gender Discrimination Lawsuit offers information on the class action lawsuit relating to CostCo's alleged discrimination against women seeking management positions.
• Federal Express Race Discrimination summarizes the class action suit against FedEx Express for alleged race discrimination against Latino and African-American hourly employees.
• Race and Color Class Action Settlement with Morgan Stanley provides information on the settlement reached in our race discrimination case against Morgan Stanley.
• Smith Barney Gender Discrimination summarizes the gender discrimination claims against Smith Barney by female financial advisors.
• Wells Fargo Overtime Wages Class Action describes a suit against Wells Fargo for allegedly denying overtime compensation to business system automation and production support workers.

Personal Injury Cases

• Butter Flavoring Lung Injuries reviews health risks posed by the flavoring agent, diacetyl. Dangers include the fatal lung disease bronchitis obliterans.
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Lawsuits provides safety tips on how to avoid the "invisible killer" of CO poisoning.
• Guidant Recall Lawsuit describes personal injury lawsuits charging negligence by Guidant for manufacturing defective medical devices, including defibrillators and pacemakers.
• International Blood Factor Hemophilia Litigation describes Lieff Cabraser's representation of persons with hemophilia who contracted HIV and/or Hepatitis C after blood transfusions.
  • Blood Factor Hemophilia - Italian
  • Blood Factor Hemophilia - Portugese
  • Blood Factor Hemophilia - Spanish
      
• Medtronic Heart Lead Recall offers information for heart patients, from seniors to children, who received defective defibrillator leads manufactured by Medtronic Inc.
• Switch Fires provides clear, concise information on switch fires linked to allegedly defective cruise control switches on various Ford vehicles.
  • en Espanol - Incendio en Switch
• Yamaha Rhino Rollover and Recall

Antitrust | Other Cases

• Gasoline Price-Fixing Lawsuit provides information on antitrust litigation against CITGO Petroleum Corporation, Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian government's oil company, and Motiva, the Russian government's oil company, for conspiring with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), to fix the price of gasoline and other oil-based products in the United States.
   
• Viking Window Class Action offers information relating to a pending class action lawsuit against Viking Industries, Inc. for defects in their Viking Series 3000 windows.
  

• Global Justice Forum - Over the past several years, Robert L. Lieff and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, have sponsored the Global Justice Forum, a series of conferences that have brought together hundreds of lawyers from over 35 countries on six continents, laying the foundation for a network of plaintiffs' counsel worldwide.

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