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Top Women Lawyers

May 11, 2011

Elizabeth J. Cabraser

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP Location: San Francisco Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Class actions, mass torts



Cabraser believes that she's making history.


Federal Judge Carl Barbiar appointed her to serve on the plaintiffs steering committee in federal court litigation against BP and other defendants for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. In Re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, MDL 2179 (E.D. La.).


"I think this is the first time, in my recent memo...

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