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Described by the American Lawyer as "one of the nation's premier plaintiffs' firms," Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a 50-plus attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Nashville. The firm enjoys a national reputation for professional integrity and the efficient and responsible prosecution of its clients' claims. Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser is committed to achieving justice for investors, consumers and employees; promoting safer products and fair competition in the marketplace; protecting the environment; and safeguarding civil and human rights worldwide.

Lieff Cabraser is among the largest law firms in the United States that represents only plaintiffs. Since 2003, The National Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation. In compiling the list, The National Law Journal examined recent verdicts and settlements in addition to overall track records. Lieff Cabraser is one of only two plaintiffs' law firms in the United States to receive this honor for the last six consecutive years.

	Robert L. Lieff E-Mail: rlieff@lieff.com Phone: (415) 788-8000 Born: 29.09.1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut Languages: English Areas of Practice:
About Robert Lieff founded Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in 1972, after litigating for seven years as a name partner with the late Melvin Belli in San Francisco at the law firm of Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos & Lieff. For more than three decades, Robert was the principal architect of Lieff Cabraser. Under his leadership, the firm, as described by The American Lawyer, became "one of the nation's premiere plaintiffs firms,” with over 60 lawyers and 200 employees in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Robert was a key player in multiple landmark civil cases including the Exxon Valdez oil disaster and Holocaust litigation. In 1996, in the national tobacco industry litigation, Robert spearheaded the first settlement with a tobacco company. The settlement signaled the end of forty years of success by tobacco companies in defeating health-related lawsuits. Two years later, an unprecedented $206 billion settlement was announced between the tobacco industry and the states’ attorneys general. The cases Robert managed at Lieff Cabraser when he headed the firm’s personal injury practice and mass torts group included the Sulzer hip and knee implant, silicon breast implants, Fen Phen, Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra and Guidant medical devices litigation. In the early 2000s, Robert created an international network of lawyers that meets annually at the Global Justice Forum. The first forum occurred in London in 2005. Subsequent forums have taken place in Paris, Rome, Vienna, and New York. More than 300 lawyers from 30 countries on six continents have attended the Global Justice Forum. Robert continues to organize and lead the Global Justice Forum. The next forum will occur on October 22, 2010, in New York at Columbia Law School, a co-sponsor of the event. This international forum is the 21st century version of the creative energy that brought together American tort practitioners in the 20th century under the leadership of the Belli firm. Philanthropy and Civic Activities Through a gift of all the attorneys' fees from the firm's Holocaust litigation, Robert endowed the Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professorship of Human Rights Law at his alma mater, Columbia Law School. Robert has undertaken to endow a second chair at Columbia Law School as The Robert L. Lieff Professorship chair in Cross-Border Litigation. Robert is a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Land Trust of Napa County; and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Legal Aid of Napa Valley. He and his wife Gretchen reside in homes in San Francisco, Rutherford (Napa Valley) and Montecito, California. They operate Lieff Wines, LLC producing wine in Rutherford and operating vineyards at Alamo Creek Ranch, their 2,500 acre property in San Luis Obispo, California. Work Experience

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP Attorneys at Law275 Battery Street, 29th Floor
94111 San Francisco, CA
USA

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