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  • July 22, 2008 | The Recorder

    Fresno Accuses Banks of Colluding on Bids

    The city of Fresno has joined two other California municipalities in a federal antitrust suit alleging that some of the country's largest banks conspired to manipulate aspects of the rou

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  • November 28, 2001 | The Recorder

    Disrupting the Class

    When Brent Ferguson and Florencia Prieto hired Walnut Creek lawyer Michael Meadows to represent them in a suit against Unocal Corp. over a toxic leak at an East Bay plant in 1994, t

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  • June 1, 2012 | The Recorder

    Kristen Law Sagafi

    Kristen Law Sagafi, 38, partner Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein As a partner at Lieff Cabraser, Sagafi litigates multimillion-dollar pro

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  • July 8, 2004 | Alm

    Plaintiffs Bar Checks Into Hospitals

    The California plaintiffs bar has found a new target: nonprofit hospitals. In the past two weeks, plaintiffs' firms have filed 19 class actions against not-for-profit hospitals, claiming they

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  • January 18, 2002 | The Recorder

    Implant Imbroglio

    The clock is running down on a federal injunction that essentially froze pending lawsuits filed by patients in Alameda County Superior Court and elsewhere who complained of defectiv

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  • March 12, 2007 | The Recorder

    Automaker Hit With $50M Punitive Verdict

    In a move that could bring a measure of relief to the plaintiffs bar, a Los Angeles jury la

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  • May 13, 2013 | Litigation Daily

    Quinn Emanuel Extends Streak with Barnes & Noble Win

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein's first-ever case reached a likely dead end on Monday, when an appeals court ruled that Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook e-reader doesn't infringe

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  • June 24, 2005 | The Recorder

    Product Defect May Set Lawyers' Hearts Racing

    There's nothing like a short circuit inside thousands of people's chest cavities to jump-start plaintiff lawyers and shock the heart of a corporate defendant. That has become cle

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  • March 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Attorneys Argue Over Toyota Venue

    Twenty-three plaintiffs' lawyers lined up against a wall in a federal courtroom in San Diego, awaiting their turn to argue about where to try dozens of cases related to sudden acceleration problems

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  • January 2, 2012 | The Recorder

    Class Action Revived Against Acer Unit Over Microchip Defect

    A California court of appeal has revived a potential class action over claims the makers of a line of personal computers now owned by Acer failed to disclose a microchip defect. The 3rd Dist

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