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8 avril 2010

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein

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The corrected release reads: LIEFF CABRASER cheap earrings & BERNSTEIN, LLP, CONGRATULATES ELIZABETH J. CABRASER FOR HER SELECTION FOR MARGARET BRENT WOMEN LAWYERS OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Steven E. Fineman, managing partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, today congratulated Elizabeth J. Cabraser for her selection by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession to receive a 2010 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. The award recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of women lawyers who have excelled in their field and have paved the way to success for other women lawyers.

"We are extremely proud that our partner Elizabeth Cabraser has been selected to receive an award that is regarded by many as the highest honor in the legal profession for women attorneys," stated Mr. Fineman. "Under Elizabeth's leadership, Lieff Cabraser has developed as one of the country's largest law firms committed to serving clients who seek to redress widespread financial and consumer fraud, anti-competitive practices, harmful drugs and products, and illegal employment practices. Over three decades, Elizabeth has made sure that our firm remained dedicated to its core values." Kelly M. Dermody, chair of Lieff Cabraser's employment law practice group, added, "Elizabeth has been a friend, colleague, mentor, and role model for me and countless female lawyers and law clerks throughout her career. In the plaintiffs' bar, a field historically dominated by male attorneys, Elizabeth broke through the glass ceiling. She has cheap jewelry significant numbers of women in advancing at our firm and in their careers at other firms around the country."

Ms. Cabraser was nominated for this award by numerous individuals, as well as by the Bar Association of San Francisco.

"I am honored to be selected as a Margaret Brent awardee and humbled to join the distinguished group of attorneys that have received the award," commented Ms. Cabraser. "I thank my partners, male and female, my mentor, founding partner Robert Lieff, who saw no limit on what women can - and should - achieve. I invoke the gratitude of all of us for the women justices, judges, and law professors, such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Mary Schroeder, Marilyn Patel, Herma Hill Kay, and so many others, who serve as role models for our profession and the women who strive to improve it. I hope in my own way to contribute to the development and success of a new generation of women lawyers."

In addition to Ms. Cabraser, the 2010 Margaret Brent honorees cheap key rings Brooksley E. Born, retired partner at Arnold & Porter LLP; Willie Stevenson Glanton, former Iowa state legislator; M. Margaret McKeown, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and Laura Stein, Senior VP General Counsel, The Clorox Company. The awards will be presented on August 8, 2010, during the ABA convention in San Francisco. About Lieff Cabraser Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a sixty-plus attorney law firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide since 1972. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, and Nashville.

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