Criminal Law

• Sex Crimes
  Immediately after the 2016 election, Lieff Cabraser attorneys conceived and coordinated the enormously successful national rapid response conference, “How to be a Good Ally”, attended by 1,300 legal professionals. The day-long conference in January 2017 featured scores of California and national non-profit organizations and leaders discussing key issues and strategies to fight back in the areas of criminalization of communities of color, government targeting of Muslims, attacks on immigrants and the undocumented, hate crimes and Anti-Semitism, domestic violence and sexual assault, healthcare for people with disabilities and medical vulnerabilities, backlash against the LGBT community, reproductive access, worker rights, and environmental justice. The speakers included many luminaries, such as the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Charles Blow, Noreen Farrell, Kate Kendell, Farhana Khera, Dahlia Lithwick, Rashad Robinson, Thomas Saenz, and Oren Segal.
• Fraud
  On February 10, 2023, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel filed a federal automotive defect class action lawsuit in federal district court in Georgia against Mercedes-Benz USA LLC and Daimler AG alleging breach of warranty and violation of state and federal consumer fraud laws, relating to rust or corrosion of the subframe 2010-2022 models across the Mercedes-Benz vehicle line, including Classes C, E, GLK, G, CLS SLK/SLC, and SL.
• Robbery
  Along with co-counsel, Lieff Cabraser represented Yutico Briley, who was convicted in 2013 of armed robbery after allegedly stealing $102 at gunpoint. Yutico was 19 years old at the time, and received a sentence of 60 years without the possibility of parole. From the moment of his arrest, Mr. Briley professed his innocence, pointing to the fact that he was in a hotel room across town during the time of the robbery. The State’s case was weak, consisting of a cross-racial (white victim, Black suspect) “show-up” identification (meaning the victim was shown only one suspect to choose from). The white victim’s description of the assailant’s build and skin tone did not match Mr. Briley, but the cases rested on the fact that Mr. Briley was African American and wore a hoody.  After Lieff Cabraser got involved years later and successfully petitioned for the conviction to be overturned in 2020, the District Attorney reviewing the case stated in part: “We believe his case demonstrates multiple failures of the criminal legal system that have been far too common in the typically brief trials of young Black men in Orleans Parish. It is an injustice that needs to be rectified as promptly as possible.” The judge granting the relief likewise concluded: “The criminal legal system unquestionably failed Mr. Briley. It also failed the victim of this crime, and it failed the City of New Orleans.”
• Theft
• Assault
• Murder
  Since then, the firm’s 21-day syllabus has been shared widely outside of our firm, resulting in interest and outreach from General Counsels at some of the biggest companies in the US, leading corporate diversity and inclusion professionals, top union leaders, and all variety of lawyers in private practice. The firm has since curated other 21-day programs and activities. After the murder of George Floyd, the governing Council of the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section substantially adopted the firm’s 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge© syllabus, and urged its members and stakeholders to complete it, resulting in what the Section has described as one of the Section’s most successful and broad-reaching campaigns ever, ultimately reaching tens of thousands in the United States and abroad: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/labor_law/membership/equal_opportunity/

Business and Corporate Law

• Antitrust
  On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Lucina Uddin in federal court in New York against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, alleging that these publishers conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would otherwise have funded scientific research. An Amended Complaint was subsequently filed on November 15, 2024.

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  Lieff Cabraser has filed numerous race discrimination class actions against employers, including a class action for African American, Latinx, and Asian American employees challenging the allegedly racist “look policy” of Abercrombie & Fitch. Lieff Cabraser prosecuted the case with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and other firms. The case settled for $50 million and business changes to promote diversity and prevent discrimination.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
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