In 2007, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained a $50 million verdict against Daimler Chrysler in a wrongful death action. Our firm has participated in over thirty-five $100 million-plus settlements and verdicts, including ten cases in excess of $1 billion.

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Bar Information

Admitted to practice in California, 1992; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Central District of California, Eastern District of California, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1992.

Education

Cornell Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1992); University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1989).

Awards

"Northern California Super Lawyer," Law & Politics, 2006-2009.

Publications

Lead Author, Citizen Report on Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) Hazards and Urgent Need to Improve Safety and Performance Standards; and Request for Urgent Efforts To Increase Yamaha Rhino Safety and Avoid Needless New Catastrophic Injuries, Amputations and Deaths, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP (2009); Co-Author with Elizabeth J. Cabraser, “Class Actions Fairness Act of 2005,” California Litigation, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2005); Co-Editor, California Class Actions Practice and Procedures (2003-06); Co-Author, "Ethics and Admissibility: Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest in and/or Funding of Scientific Studies and/or Data May Warrant Evidentiary Exclusions," Mealey's December Emerging Drugs Reporter (December 2002); Co-author, "The Shareholder Strikes Back: Varied Approaches to Civil Litigation Claims Are Available to Help Make Shareholders Whole," Mealey's Emerging Securities Litigation Reporter (September 2002); Co-author, "Decisions Interpreting California's Rules of Class Action Procedure," Survey of State Class Action Law (ABA 2000-09), updated and re-published in 5 Newberg on Class Actions (2001-09); Coordinating Editor and Co-author of California section of the ABA State Class Action Survey (2001-06); Co-Editor-In-Chief, Fen-Phen Litigation Strategist (Leader Publications 1998-2000) and Author of "Off-Label Drug Promotion Permitted" (Oct. 1999); Co-author, "The Future of Prescription Drug Products Liability Litigation in a Changing Marketplace," and "Six Courts Certify Medical Monitoring Claims for Class Treatment," 29 Forum 4 (Consumer Attorneys of California 1999); Co-author, "Class Certification of Medical Monitoring Claims in Mass Tort Product Liability Litigation" (ALI-ABA Course of Study 1999); Co-author, "How Class Proofs of Claim in Bankruptcy Can Help in Medical Monitoring Cases," (Leader Publications 1999); Co-author, Introduction, "Sanctioning Discovery Abuses in the Federal Court," (LRP Publications 2000); "With Final Approval, Diet Drug Class Action Settlement Avoids Problems That Doomed Asbestos Pact," (Leader Publications 2000).

Member

State Bar of California; Bar Association of San Francisco; American Bar Association; American Association for Justice; Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Society of Automotive Engineers.