About Our Firm

Thank you for considering hiring Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, as your law firm. Our firm consists of more than fifty lawyers and a large support staff in three offices nationwide.

Since our founding in 1972, we have handled and resolved thousands of personal injury and wrongful death cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. We are widely regarded as one of the premier plaintiffs’ law firms in the country.

For the last five years, 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 plaintiff law firms in the United States to receive this honor for the last five consecutive years.

We offer our clients the following advantages:

Submit Your Case

Lieff Cabraser represents individuals and the families of individuals across America who have been become seriously ill or have died after the use of the Ortho Evra birth control patch.

Submit your case to an experienced personal injury attorney or feel free to telephone us toll-free at 1-800-541-7358 and ask to speak with lawyer Heather Foster.

Attentive, Personal Service

We are committed to providing the very best representation and support possible for our clients, and to obtaining the highest compensation under law for their claims.

We work closely with our clients throughout the litigation. Each client is assigned an individual attorney who is responsible for prosecuting the case and regularly communicating with the client. At the same time, our attorneys work as a team, drawing upon their combined knowledge, training and skills to provide our clients with decades of litigation experience.

The Strength of A National Law Firm

Lieff Cabraser is among the largest law firms in the United States that represent only plaintiffs. Our legal skills, along with our ability to advance the costs in our clients’ cases, enable us to take on the most powerful corporations in the world and the large defense firms that represent them. Lieff Cabraser has successfully litigated against many of the country’s largest corporations, including companies in the pharmaceutical, automotive, and airplane industries.

Leaders Among Attorneys

Our firm enjoys a national reputation for professional integrity and for the efficient, aggressive and responsible prosecution of our clients’ claims. Our attorneys are routinely appointed by federal and state courts across America to serve as the leaders in national personal injury and wrongful death cases. For each of the last four years, the National Law Journal has ranked our firm among the top plaintiffs’ law firms in the nation.

Many of our attorneys are directors and officers of various local and national bar associations. Many of the firm’s lawyers write articles, give speeches and teach law students concerning areas of the firm’s practice. And a number of our attorneys have received awards and honors for their distinguished skills and successes.

A Top-Notch Legal Team

Our attorneys include some of the country’s most distinguished legal practitioners, with expertise in investigating and filing personal injury lawsuits, prosecuting complex, time-consuming cases through trial, and negotiating and crafting settlements that achieve justice for our clients.

In addition to our more than sixty attorneys, we employ an impressive team of legal nurse consultants, scientific and medical analysts, investigators and legal assistants who have years of experience in personal injury lawsuits.

We also have relationships with the leading experts in the fields of accident and disaster reconstruction, automotive safety, product design, aviation, manufacturing, medicine and surgery, and pharmacology.

An Outstanding Track Record

Lieff Cabraser has obtained over $400 million in verdicts, judgments and settlements for our clients in individual personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits. Since 1995, and working with co-counsel, we have achieved verdicts, judgments and settlements in excess of $10 billion in product liability class action lawsuits.

Our most recent trial was a wrongful death action brought by the family of a young father killed due to a defect in his Dodge Dakota pickup truck. Lieff Cabraser served as lead trial counsel in the action and obtained a $54.4 million verdict for the family.

Currently, we are prosecuting scores of lawsuits involving injuries and deaths resulting from all types of negligent conduct and design defects, including cases arising out of air disasters and vehicle rollover accidents. We are also representing patients who received defective medical devices, contaminated blood products, and prescription drugs with undisclosed, dangerous side effects.

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Additional Lieff Cabraser Information: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville, is one of the largest law firms in the United States that represents only plaintiffs. We have been nationally recognized for our representation of victims of dangerous and defective medical products. We are representing Ortho Evra birth control patch patients in individual peronal injury lawsuits.

Our clients come from across America, including the states of Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming. Learn more about our firm.

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Trademark Notice: Ortho Evra is a trademark of Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is used for product identification purposes only. The law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is in no way affiliated with Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals Inc. or its subsidiary, Ortho Women's Health.