The program will explore the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the most comprehensive privacy law in the country, and the January 2020 updates that have significantly affected companies’ legal obligations. Attendees will learn the law’s basic framework, gain insight into compliance approaches from the both in-house and regulator perspectives, and review updates since the CCPA took effect.

David will co-lead a presentation on “The Outside Counsel Perspective,” alongside Jeffrey Tsai of DLA Piper.

The program is available to attend both online and in person.

For more information and to register, visit PLI’s website.

About David Rudolph

A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, David Rudolph is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice groups. He has extensive experience litigating core technical issues in privacy cases, including in In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation, MDL No. 2617 (N.D. Cal.), arising from a data breach that affected nearly 80 million of Anthem’s members, and in Campbell v. Facebook, Inc., No. 5:13-cv- 5996 (N.D. Cal.), in which Facebook users asserted that Facebook violated their privacy rights by scanning their private email messages.

David has represented end-payor classes in pharmaceutical antitrust litigation, including in the Cipro drug antitrust cases, the Restasis antitrust litigation, and the Generic Pharmaceuticals Price-Fixing cases. In 2017, David shared the “Outstanding Private Practice Antitrust Achievement” award from the American Antitrust Institute for his work on the Cipro case. He also represents plaintiffs in In re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation (D.D.C.), a class action lawsuit alleging a conspiracy by United, American, Delta, and Southwest to artificially inflate domestic airline ticket prices by artificially limiting seating capacity.

David is also the author of Litigating Corporate Surveillance: Privacy, Autonomy, Power, and Democracy in the Courtroom (Routledge, 2025). In this book, he offers a critical corrective to prevailing views on the legality of corporate data exploitation practices, arguing that litigation—rather than legislation alone—is essential to enforcing privacy rights in democratic societies.

Hosted by the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), the annual event brings together leaders in the consumer law community to advance economic justice and strengthen protections for consumers nationwide.

Mark will speak on the panel “Taking Class Actions to Trial” on Sunday, November 16, alongside Len Bennett (Consumer Litigation Associates, PC), John Barrett (Bailey Glasser LLP), Shennan Kavanagh (NCLC), Shana Khader (Tycko & Zavareei LLP), and Jen Wagner (NCLC).

For more information and to view the full conference agenda, visit the event website.

About Mark Chalos

The Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser’s Nashville office, Mark P. Chalos (twitter/X: @mpchalos) represents individuals who have suffered catastrophic personal injuries and families whose loved ones died due to the negligence or misconduct of others. Mark has tried cases before juries and judges across the country and serves in the leadership of numerous class actions and multidistrict litigations, including the national opioids litigation. He is Immediate Past-President of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School teaching The Practice of Aggregate Litigation, a frequent speaker at legal seminars nationwide on a variety of civil litigation topics, and is regularly cited by top-tier media outlets

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein partner Rachel Geman presented an overview of Whistleblower/ False Claims Act litigation and what factors create an effective case for relators’ attorneys during the Southeast Complex Litigation Conference in Nashville in late October.

“You’re looking for a case that’s just the right mix, you might say,” Geman said. “Legitimate fraud against the government and the taxpayer, proper evidence, good timing.”

Specifically, she discussed the importance of documentary proof and knowledge of evidentiary sources within the parameters of what the relator can properly collect; of focusing on frauds that cry the most out for vindication – those that hurt people,  materially fleece the government, or turn important government objectives on their head; and the observation that a fraud that had been around for a very long time might suggest the need for more digging but a new fraud that has not yet cost the government much might unfortunately rapidly expand.

According to U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates, the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud – based on most recent data from 2018 through 2022.

Geman and other presenters also discussed how most productively to work with the U.S. Department of Justice – which decides whether to intervene in private plaintiff Whistleblower/ FCA cases on behalf of the federal government.

The Southeast Complex Litigation Conference was presented by Lieff Cabraser and the Tennessee Bar Association.

About Rachel Geman

Rachel Geman is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office and the Chair of the firm’s False Claims/Qui Tam practice group. Her practice is dedicated to representing whistleblowers, writers and other rightsholders, employees, and consumers in complex class action and False Claims Act matters.  Rachel has served as the employee-side Chair of two ABA’s Labor & Employment Law Section Committees and the NELA/NY amicus committee. She is a CDRC-trained community mediator and an avocational writer.

Learn more at https://www.calindianlaw.org/conference.html

Lieff Cabraser’s Native American Cases

Lieff Cabraser represents tribes and tribal governments as plaintiffs in many of the firm’s cases, including mass tort, environmental harm, and unfair business practices. Learn more about our extensive Native American case work.

PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are human-made chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products for their resistance to heat, water, and oil. Because they do not readily break down, PFAS persist in the environment and the human body for decades, earning the name “forever chemicals.”

In addition to contamination originally found in the public water system at the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, PFAS have subsequently been detected in the Tribe’s lakes, fish, and wild game, threatening Tribal members’ health and substantially endangering subsistence and cultural practices central to the Tribe’s honored way of life.

In 2023 and 2024, defendants in Leech Lake’s suit entered into separate nationwide settlements related to PFAS contamination in public water systems. However, based on the number of people its water systems serve, Leech Lake could not have participated in many of these settlements. Further, the one prior settlement that Leech Lake could have participated in did not consider tribal interests, required a over-broad release of PFAS-related claims, and would not have adequately compensated Leech Lake for PFAS-related harms. Those trade-offs were not acceptable to the Band, which initiated the 2025 lawsuit.

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is committed to protecting and preserving the water, land, and sky that the Ojibwe people rely on for health, wellness, and spirituality. “The corporations responsible for poisoning our water, land, and people must be held accountable for the damage they have caused in the name of profits for their shareholders,” the Tribe said in announcing the lawsuit. “The products that have caused PFAS pollution were marketed as conveniences to make profits at the expense of the health of humans, animals, and the environment.”

As alleged in the complaint, the defendants in the Band’s lawsuit knew the dangers PFAS posed to human health and the environment, and yet they continued to sell and distribute products containing PFAS. Leech Lake filed this suit to hold them accountable.

The mission of TLMT is to foster collaboration and education among top-tier Judiciary, Plaintiffs, and Defense Bar professionals. TLMT conferences are held across the U.S. and North America and are designed to tackle contemporary issues in complex litigation, focusing on class actions and mass torts.

For more information and to register, visit the TLMT website.

Avery will present alongside Hadley Lundback of Faraci Lange, LLP.

For more information and to register, visit the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers website.

About Avery Halfon

A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s New York office, Avery Halfon represents plaintiffs in some of the nation’s largest complex litigations, helping to challenge—and change—harmful industry practices. He has worked with lead counsel on mass torts and class actions seeking accountability for the opioid epidemic, poisonous water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, toxic hair relaxer products, defective vehicles and other products, a California oil spill, financial manipulation, consumer fraud, sexual abuse, discrimination, and more. These cases have won billions for injured parties.

Avery serves on the Associate Board of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers and was a member of Law360’s Consumer Protection Editorial Advisory Board in 2021 and 2023. He was named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers in America for 2025 and has been selected as a New York Metro Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2021.

The one-hour program examined the progression of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) industry and the complex state and federal regulations governing it. The discussion also addressed disturbing trends including the growing consolidation of medical device manufacturers and the increasing role of private equity investment in both manufacturing and clinic ownership.

Tiseme spoke alongside Tracey B. Cowan of Clarkson Law Firm. Together, they shared insights and strategies for litigating fertility negligence cases, including claims involving embryo loss, clinic errors, and other forms of reproductive harm.

Learn more about the program on the Practising Law Institute website.

About Tiseme Zegeye

A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, Tiseme Zegeye specializes in individual and class actions focusing on women’s health issues, and in employment discrimination cases. Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Tiseme was a Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York, where she litigated to protect women’s reproductive rights. Previously, she was a Legal Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union Women’s Rights Project in New York, where she worked to fight gender discrimination in employment, education, and housing.

The proposed settlement, which would provide approximately $3,000 in compensation per work, is believed to be the largest copyright recovery ever obtained and the first of its kind in the AI era. Plaintiffs alleged that Anthropic unlawfully downloaded and used millions of books from the pirated databases Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its AI chatbot, Claude.

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Dean will speak on “Statistics for Antitrust Lawyers” alongside Jamie McClave (McClave + Associates), Hal Singer (EconOne), and moderator Joshua P. Davis (Berger Montague).

For more details and to register, visit the AAI’s website.

About Dean Harvey

A partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office, Dean M. Harvey represents individuals and companies in antitrust, business tort, employment, and intellectual property litigation. His cases seek to remedy and prevent wrongful conduct by dominant firms. These precedent-setting lawsuits concern a wide variety of industries and markets. Remedies include reimbursing purchasers who have overpaid for price-fixed products; preventing monopolists from stifling innovation and eliminating competition; and obtaining damages for businesses, inventors, and copyright owners.

Mr. Harvey was a leader in the High-Tech Antitrust class action against Google, Apple, Intel and other tech giants for allegedly conspiring to suppress the mobility and compensation of their technical employees. This landmark case resulted in the largest recovery (by far) of any class action asserting antitrust claims in the employment context: $435 million. Mr. Harvey continues the fight to ensure that employees receive competitive compensation, currently representing a doctor in a class action alleging an unlawful no-hire agreement between the medical schools of Duke University and the University of North Carolina.