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| | Address | One Nashville Place
150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 1650 | | Nashville, Tennessee 37219-2415 | | (Davidson Co.) | | | |
| | | Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP practices in the following areas of law:
The representation of plaintiffs in individual, group and class actions in the fields of personal injury and mass torts, securities fraud, antitrust, consumer protection, product defect, employment discrimination and unlawful employment practices, aviation, environmental and toxic exposure and civil and human rights cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States. | | Year Established: 1972 | Firm Profile:
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a sixty-five attorney, AV-rated law firm founded in 1972 with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Lieff Cabraser has a diversified practice, successfully representing plaintiffs 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 clients include individuals, classes or groups of persons, businesses, and public and private entities. Lieff Cabraser has served as court-appointed Plaintiffs' Lead or Class Counsel in state and federal coordinated, multi-district, and complex litigation throughout the United States. With co-counsel, we have represented clients across the globe in cases filed in American courts. We have 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 last decade. For a detailed listing our cases, please review our resume at http://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/resume.pdf. | | Firm Size: 54 |
Other Office Locations of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (Main Office)
New York, New York, U.S.A.
| | PARTNERS | | Kathryn E. Barnett (Partner) born Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 23, 1967; admitted to bar, 1992, Tennessee; 1997, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2001, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 2005, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. Education: Davidson College (B.A., with honors, 1989); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1992). Awards & Honors: Mid-South Super Lawyer, "Law & Politics", 2006-2007; "Best Lawyers in Tennessee," Business Tennessee, (2003, 2005-2007); "Best of the Bar," Nashville Business Journal, (2003, 2005-2007). Judicial Intern to Judge John T. Nixon, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, Fall 1990. Assistant Public Defender, Davidson County, Tennessee, Sept. 1991-Dec. 1995. Publications/Presentations: "Civil Procedure and Evidence Update," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (Oct.-Nov. 2006); "Pre-Trial Skills: Thinking on Your Feet," National Business Institute (Nov. 2006); "Trial Practice Institute," Nashville Bar Association (Sept. 2005); "State Law Class Actions," American Bar Association, Business Law Section (April 2005); "Power Windows Can Kill," Trial (April 2005); "Auto Defect Cases," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (Feb. 2005); "Trial Practice Tips: Powerful Trial Strategies for the Absolute Litigator," Nashville Bar Association (April, 2004); "Limiting the Harmful Testimony of Experts on the Law," Trial (Jan 2001); "Letting Focus Groups Work for You," Trial (April 1999); "Knocking Out Opposing Experts," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (October and November, 2004), Nashville Bar Association (July, 2004); "Trial Practice Tips: Powerful Trial Strategies for the Absolute Litigator," Nashville Bar Association (April, 2004); "Damages," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (Oct. and Nov. 2003); "Trying the Wrongful Death Case in Tennessee," National Business Institute (Aug. 2003); "Advanced Personal Injury," National Business Institute (July 2003); "Mass Torts," Tennessee Bar Association (July 2002); "Superior Depositions Strategies in Civil Trial Practice," National Business Institute (Jan. 2002, Dec. 1999); "Lawsuits Against the Nursing Home Industry," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (Feb. 2000); "How to Prepare for Mediation and other Practice Tips," Nashville Bar Association (Oct. 2000); "Tennessee Expert Witness," Lorman Education Services (July 2000); "Using Focus Groups to Get the Settlement or Verdict Your Client Deserves," Tennessee Trial Lawyers (Feb. 1999). Member: Tennessee Association for Justice (Secretary, 2007-08; Chair Continuing Education Committee, 2004-2006; Board of Governors, 2002-2008; Executive Committee, 2008-2009); Nashville Bar Association (Board, 2005-2008); Nashville Bar Foundation (Fellow); Tennessee Justice Center, Inc. (Board of Directors, 2002-05; Secretary-Treasurer, 2003-04); Nashville Lawyer's Association for Women (President, 2004-2005; President-elect, 2003-2004; Director, 2002-03; Treasurer, 2000-02; Board, 1998—); Harry Phillips American Inn of Courts (Executive Committee, 2004-05; Member, 2004-2008, 1997-99); Davidson County, Tennessee Metropolitan Board of Equalization (Member, 2000-04); Tennessee Bar Association; American Association of Trial Lawyers. Email: Kathryn E. Barnett | | Elizabeth A. Alexander (Partner) born Morristown, Tennessee, October 4, 1971; admitted to bar, 1998, Tennessee; 2000, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2002, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. Education: Hollins College (B.A., 1993); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1998). President, Criminal Law Association, Vanderbilt University Law School. Member: Moot Court Board; Vanderbilt University Honor Committee. Law Clerk to the Hon. Thomas A. Higgins, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1998-2000. ABA Survey of State Class Action Law, Tennessee section (2005, 2006). Recipient, "Lawdragon 500 New Stars" and "Lawdragon 3000 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America," Lawdragon magazine, 2006. Author, Tennessee section of the ABA State Class Action Survey (2003-2007). Member: Nashville (Member, Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division), Tennessee and American (Member: Labor and Employment Law Section; Equal Employment Opportunity Committee; Co-Chair, Basics Committee, 2005-2006; Chair, Internal Marketing and Mentoring Committee, 2006-2007) Bar Associations; Lawyers' Association for Women (Director, 2003—); National Employment Lawyers' Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Employment Litigation. Email: Elizabeth A. Alexander | | ASSOCIATES | | Mark P. Chalos (Associate) born New York, New York, September 3, 1973; admitted to bar, 1998, Tennessee; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 2001, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 2005, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee and Northern District of Florida. Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1995); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1998). Dean's List. Phi Delta Phi. Recipient, Award for Highest Grade, Admiralty Law. Listed, "Best of the Bar," Nashville Business Journal, 2008; "Top 40 Under 40"; "The Tennessean, 2004"; "Rising Star," Law and Politics, 2008. Research Editor, Emory International Law Review. Editorial Board, Nashville Bar Journal. Author: "The End of Meaningful Punitive Damages," Nashville Bar Journal, November, 2001; "Is Civility Dead?" Nashville Bar Journal, October, 2003; "The FCC: The Constitution, Censorship, and a Celebrity Breast," Nashville Bar Journal, April, 2005. Member, Harry Phillips American Inn of Court, 2002-2004. Grant Review Panelist, Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission. Founding Member, Young Professionals Program, Frist Center for the Visual Arts. President, Kappa Chapter, Kappa Sigma Fraternity Alumni Association. Member: Nashville (Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division; Chair, Young Lawyers Division Continuing Legal Education), Tennessee and American (Co-Chair, Young Lawyers Division, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Committee; Young Lawyers Division Liaison, Professionalism Committee, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section) Bar Associations; Fight for Justice Campaign; Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors); Tennessee Association for Justice (Board of Governors, 2008-2009). Practice Areas: Consumer Protection; Product Defects; Personal Injury; Mass Torts. Email: Mark P. Chalos | | Christopher E. Coleman (Associate) born Mobile, Alabama, March 30, 1971; admitted to bar, 2005, Georgia. (Not admitted in Tennessee). Education: Vanderbilt University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1993); University of Virginia (M.A., English, 1995); Northwestern University (M.A., History, 2000; J.D., cum laude, 2003). Order of the Coif. Recipient, John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship, 2002. Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review, 2002-2003. Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Joan Humphrey Lefkow, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2003-2005. Publications: Contributing Author, "California Class Actions Practice and Procedures" (Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Editor-in-Chief, 2006-2007); Author, "Decades-Old Murder Case Needs Review," Op-Ed, Chicago Sun-Times, February 2, 2003. Co-Author, "Social Movements and Social Change Litigation: Synergy in the Montgomery Bus Protest," Law and Social Inquiry, Fall 2005. Presenter, "Fingerprints and False Confessions: The William Heirens Case," Conference Presentation, Conference on False Confessions, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, March 2002. Member: Nashville (Member, Board of Directors, Young Lawyers Division), Tennessee and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Association for Women; American Constitution Society (Member, Board of Directors, Nashville Lawyers' Chapter). Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death; Civil Rights; Human Rights. Email: Christopher E. Coleman | | Sharmila L. Murthy (Associate) born 1977; admitted to bar, 2004, Tennessee, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2005, New York. Education: Cornell University (B.S., with honors, 1997); Harvard University (M.P.A., 2003); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2003). Recipient: "Nashville Emerging Leader Award Finalist," Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and 20/20 Leadership Alliance, 2008; New Advocate of the Year, Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, 2006; Article of the Year, Nashville Bar Journal, 2006; Skadden Fellowship, 2004; Betty Allebach Award for Public Service, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 2003; Kennedy Scholarship, JFK School of Government, 1999; U.S. Fulbright Award, 1998-1999. Publications and Presentations: "Lost in Translation?" Interpreters in the Courts," The Nashville Bar Journal (2006 ); "SEWA's Rural Savings and Credit Program in Gujarat, India," Kennedy School Review: Student Perspectives 2000. Member: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 2001-2003; Tennessee Immigrants and Refugee Rights Coalition; Alumni Advisory Board, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Member: Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations; Lawyers Association for Women; Inn of Court; American Constitution Society. | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
San Francisco, California (Main) Office: Embarcadero Center West, 30th Floor, 275 Battery Street, 94111-3339. Telephone: 415-956-1000. Facsimile: 415-956-1008.
New York, N.Y. Office: 780 Third Avenue, 48th Floor, 10017-2024. Telephone: 212-355-9500. Facsimile: 212-355-9592.
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