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Litigation
Within Mass tort and class action: plaintiff representation – labor and employment, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a second tier firm,
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP fields 60 fee-earners across its offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. In New York, Rachel Geman is recommended as an expert in employment discrimination cases, while in San Francisco, Jahan Sagafi is a specialist on misclassification. In 2010, the San Francisco pair of Daniel Hutchinson and Heather Wong made partner; both are experts on Title VII discrimination and ERISA cases. The firm has been appointed co-lead counsel in the highly publicized Goldman Sachs gender discrimination class action lawsuit alleging violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in that it has participated in systemic and pervasive discrimination against female professional employees. The firm is also representing former AT&T Operations technical support workers in Buccellato v AT&T, a class action that alleges violations of federal overtime pay laws because AT&T enacted a common practice of misclassifying technical support workers as exempt, thereby failing to pay them for all overtime hours worked.