Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a 125+ attorney AV-rated law firm founded in 1972 with offices in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Munich. The firm has a widely diversified practice, successfully representing plaintiffs in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities and financial fraud, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, product defect, consumer protection, antitrust, environmental and toxic exposures, False Claims Act, digital privacy and data security, and abuse survivor and human rights law. Its clients include individuals, classes and groups of people, businesses, and public and private entities.
Lieff Cabraser has served as Court-appointed Plaintiffs’ lead or class counsel in a myriad of state and federal coordinated, multi-district, and complex litigation. With co-counsel, the firm has also represented clients across the globe in cases filed in American courts.
Described by The American Lawyer as “one of the nation’s premier plaintiffs’ firms,” Lieff Cabraser enjoys an unparalleled reputation for professional integrity and the successful prosecution of our clients’ claims. With sophisticated legal skills and financial resources adequate for the handling of large, complex cases, Lieff Cabraser takes great pride in the leadership roles its plays in many of the world’s major cases, including those resulting in landmark decisions and precedent-setting rulings and settlements.
Lieff Cabraser has litigated and resolved thousands of individual lawsuits and hundreds of class and group actions, including some of the most important civil cases in the United States over the past five decades, and has assisted its clients in recovering over $127 billion in verdicts and settlements.
A 2023 NLJ finalist for Plaintiff Firm of the Year, the New York Law Journal named Lieff Cabraser its 2022 "Class Action Litigation Department" of the year. We saw five partners named as Lawdragon 500 “Leading Lawyers" in 2022, with two more partners named to the publication's "Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame." Best Lawyers' 2022 rankings include thirty individual "Best Lawyer" lawyer listings as well as fifteen tier-one placements (including a national tier-one ranking for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions) and "Lawyer of the Year" for Mass Tort & Class Actions for Northern California.
In April of 2021, Benchmark Litigation named Lieff Cabraser its “California Plaintiff Firm of the Year” for the third year in a row, and the firm was a 2019 finalist for the publication’s national “Plaintiff Law Firm of the Year” award. In December 2019, The American Lawyer included Lieff Cabraser in its "Top 50 Litigation Departments in the U.S.," the only all-plaintiff-side litigation firm included among the firms recognized.
