Steven E. Fineman

Steven E. Fineman is the Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.

Mr. Fineman, who is based in the firm’s New York City office, has been recognized for his leadership of Lieff Cabraser — Lawdragon Magazine has called him one of the “100 Managing Partners You Need to Know.”

Based in the firm’s New York City office, Mr. Fineman represents institutional and classes of investors in securities and financial fraud cases; classes and groups of individuals in mass tort litigation; classes of consumers in false marketing and deceptive business practice cases; and whistleblowers in False Claims Act matters.

Mr. Fineman has been recognized for his success as a litigator by Best Lawyers in America (2016 New York City Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions, Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year); Super Lawyers (Securities Litigation); and Benchmark Plaintiffs (Litigation Star; National Practice, Mass Tort/Product Liability and Local Litigation Star; New York, Securities and Mass Torts).

Mr. Fineman has been appointed to numerous leadership roles in the legal community. He is a long-time member of the board and is a past President of the Public Justice Foundation. He is currently a member of the board of The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Law School Center on the Legal Profession and the Advisory Board of the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute. He previously served as the co-chair of the Securities Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice.

Mr. Fineman is a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s National Commission and in 2019 was named Chair of the ADL New York Region, having previously served as Vice-Chair. He writes and lectures frequently on complex litigation and the business of the law.