When Elizabeth Cabraser first started working as a law clerk for Bob Lieff in 1977, she was often the only woman in a mass tort case.
“Over the years, a few more women came into the picture, but they were still few and far between,” said Cabraser, a partner at San Francisco’s Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. “The guys were in charge.” Now, more female attorneys are taking on leadership roles in mass tort litigation, in part due to the encouragement of judges who appoint the committees that lead the litigation, many of which involve products made exclusively for women, such as birth control and pelvic mesh devices.
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