Elizabeth Cabraser

Elizabeth Cabraser is a prominent gay leader, and the firm has been active on gay rights issues, most prominently 2008 California Proposition 8. The firm has also been involved in antitrust litigation against several Silicon Valley firms and has supported donor disclosure laws. Under Elizabeth Cabraser’s leadership, Lieff Cabraser has become one of the country’s largest law firms serving clients seeking redress for financial and consumer fraud, anti-competitive practices, harmful drugs and products, and illegal employment practices.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law), Berkeley, California J.D. – 1978
• University of California, Berkeley, California A.B. – 1975

Notable Cases

• 2008, The firm was a leader against 2008 California Proposition 8, a California ballot proposition and state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage.
• In 2014, Lieff Cabraser represented four plaintiffs who sued Apple Inc., Google, Intel, and Adobe Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit. The case was set to go to trial, but the companies agreed to settle for $324 million. In a highly unusual move, one of the four plaintiffs wrote to the judge in the case, asking her to reject the deal negotiated by his own lawyers. In 2015, a new settlement of $425 million was proposed, with the lawyers’ share of the settlement as much as 25%. The settlement was approved in September 2015.
• In 2017, Lieff Cabraser brought a suit against Google, alleging that the company systematically pays women less than men.
• In 2018, Lieff Cabraser represented 56 U.S. cities and counties who opposed President Trump’s efforts to use executive authority to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities that failed to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.