Lin Yee Chan
Top rated Antitrust Litigation attorney in San Francisco, California
Practice Areas:
Antitrust Litigation,
Employment Litigation
Education Qualification:
Stanford Law School
Practice Areas:
Antitrust litigation,
Employment litigation
275 Battery Street, 29th FloorSan Francisco, California, 94111
First Admitted: 2008, California
Professional Webpage: http://www.lieffcabraser.com/Attorneys/Lin-Y-Chan.shtml
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council, 2024-2026; American Antitrust Institute (Advisory Board Member, 2019 – present); American Bar Association Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice (Fair and Impartial Courts Committee Co-Chair, 2017-2019); Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus (Executive Committee and Board Member, 2013-2019; Annual Dinner Committee Co-Chair, 2015-2016); Asian American Bar Association (President, 2023; Officer, 2020-2022; Director-at-Large, 2017-2019; Women’s Committee Co-Chair, 2016-2017; Civil Rights Committee Co-Chair, 2011-2016); Bar Association of San Francisco (Antitrust and Business Regulation, Co-Chair, 2018-2019); Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL) (Immediate Past President, 2023; President, 2022; Officer, 2019-2021); Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, Competition, 2021, 2022; Public Justice; State Bar of California
Honors/Awards:
- Selected for inclusion by peers in The Best Lawyers in America in field of “Litigation – Antitrust,” 2021-2025; “Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers,” Lawdragon, 2025; “Unity Award,” Minority Bar Coalition, Asian American Bar Association, 2024; “Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America,” Lawdragon, 2025; “Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers in America,” Lawdragon, 2018-2024; “Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America,” Lawdragon, 2019-2024; “Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyer,” Super Lawyers, 2023; “Top 50 Women Super Lawyer,” Super Lawyers, 2023; “Super Lawyer for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2019-2023; “Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award,” American Antitrust Institute & Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL), 2021; “Top Antitrust Lawyers in California,” Daily Journal, 2021; “Rising Star for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2015-2018; “40 and Under Hot List,” Benchmark Litigation, 2018; “Outstanding Antitrust Achievement by a Young Lawyer,” American Antitrust Institute, 2017; “Outstanding Private Practice Antitrust Achievement,” American Antitrust Institute, 2017; “Rising Star for Competition Law,” Law360, 2017, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Educational Background:
- Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, B.A., Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) – 2001
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- Panelist, Under the Umbrella: Antitrust Damages, ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, April 2023; Panelist, Celebrating Women in Antitrust, California Lawyers Association, March 2023; Moderator, Antitrust and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Plaintiffs’ Antitrust Bar, American Antitrust Institute 15th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference (Nov. 10, 2021); Panelist, The State of Private Enforcement: What 10-Year Trends Say About the Success of Antitrust Class Actions, American Antitrust Institute 14th; Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference (Nov. 10, 2020); Moderator, Information Exchanges: Antitrust, RICO, and Tort Theories of Liability, American Bar Association Antitrust Section (July 2, 2020); Panelist, API Representation, Bay Area Asian Pacific American Law Students Associations Conference (Jan. 25, 2020); Panelist, Class Certification – The Evolving Relationship Between Damages and Predominance, American Bar Association 6th Annual Class Actions and Mass Torts Regional CLE Program (June 21, 2019); Moderator, Gerrymandering and the New Supreme Court: Where Do We Go From Here?, American Bar Association (Sept. 6, 2018); Panelist, Careers in the Private Sector, Pathways to Law Conference (Feb. 2018); Moderator, Antitrust for HR: No-Poach and Wage-Fixing Agreements, Bar Association of San Francisco (Jan. 16, 2018); Moderator, Challenging Non-Price Restraints, American Antitrust Institute Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference (Nov. 2017); Panelist, Mediation and Settlement: Tips on Damages Analysis, New Case Law and Cy Pres, Bridgeport’s 2017 Wage & Hour Litigation & Management Conference (Oct. 6, 2017); Chapter Chair, Lindemann & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, Sixth Edition; Moderator, Workers in the New Tech Economy: Race and Gender Discrimination, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL) 2016 Symposium (Feb. 26, 2016); Panelist, Settlement Ethics: Negotiating Class Action Settlements the Right Way, 2016 14th Annual Impact Fund Class Action Conference (Feb. 2016); Panelist, Empowering Asian Pacific American Women in the Law, Berkeley Law (Feb. 2016); Moderator, What Making a Murderer Means for Fair and Impartial Courts: A Discussion with Dean Strang, American Bar Association Civil Rights and Social Justice Section (May 9, 2016); Author, Do Federal Associated General Contractors Standing Requirements Apply to State Illinois Brick Repealer Statutes?, Business Torts & RICO News (Winter 2015); Panelist, Federal and State Whistleblower Laws: What You Need to Know, Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (Nov. 2014); Panelist, Hey CAFA, Is That a Class Action: Mississippi ex rel Hood v. AU Optronics, ABA Section of Litigation (Jan. 30, 2014); Author, California Supreme Court Clarifies State Class Certification Standards in Brinker, American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Newsletter (Apr. 2013); Presenter, Rule 23 Basics in Employment Cases, 11th Annual Impact Fund Employment Discrimination Class Action Conference (Feb. 2013); Chapter Author, The Class Action Fairness Act: Law and Strategies (2013); Co-Author, Clash of the Titans: Iqbal and Wage and Hour Class/Collective Actions, BNA, Daily Labor Report, 80 DLR L-1 (Apr. 28, 2010); Chapter Co-Chair, Lindemann & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, Fifth Edition (2012); Chapter Update Chair, Lindemann & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law Cumulative Supplement (2010, 2014, 2015)
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