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Partner Lin Chan and Associate Michelle Lamy represent employees, consumers, and small businesses in class actions challenging wage theft, discrimination, and price-fixing. Both were summer associates at Lieff Cabraser and will talk about their post-law school paths, Lieff Cabraser, and public plaintiff-side work generally. They will also be available to meet with students who are interested in Lieff Cabraser’s summer program. Please contact Braden Glackin at bglackin@lchb.com to submit application materials for Lieff Cabraser’s summer program.

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a seventy-attorney law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Nashville, and Seattle. We are among the largest law firms in the United States that only represent plaintiffs.

Lieff Cabraser is driven by a strong and principled sense of social responsibility. We are committed to achieving justice for investors, consumers, employees, patients, and business owners; promoting safer products and fair competition; protecting our environment; assisting individuals blow the whistle on fraud; safeguarding the rights of patent and copyright holders; ensuring our right to privacy is preserved; and upholding the civil rights of citizens worldwide.

Speakers

Lin Y. Chan is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office. Lin’s successes at Lieff Cabraser include representing direct purchasers of titanium dioxide against the titanium dioxide manufacturers for conspiring to fix prices. Lin worked extensively on the case’s trial preparation, including drafting and arguing motions in limine. In 2013, the case settled before trial for $163 million.

Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Lin spent four years litigating nationwide employment discrimination and wage and hour class action lawsuits throughout the country. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2008.Lin received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2007. While at Stanford, Lin was the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and served as the Fundraising Chair of the Shaking the Foundations Progressive Lawyering Conference. During this time, Lin participated in the Stanford Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, where she successfully represented a Guatemalan refugee in her application for asylum and wrote an amicus brief to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Human Rights Watch. Prior to attending law school, Lin worked as a labor organizer for the Service Employees International Union.

Michelle Lamy is an associate in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office. Prior to joining Lieff Cabraser, Michelle was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Thelton E. Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Michelle earned her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she won the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Research and Legal Writing, and the Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Statutory Interpretation. She was on the Executive Board of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, worked at the Stanford Community Law Clinic, and was Co-President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Prior to attending law school, Michelle earned a bachelor of arts degree summa cum laude from the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston College, where she was a Dean’s Scholar, and won Dean’s List and Phi Beta Kappa honors.