Kelly M. Dermody

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
Kelly M. Dermody is Managing Partner of the San Francisco office of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.  She chairs the firm's Employment Practice Group and specializes in class and collective actions on behalf of plaintiffs in employment and consumer cases.  She is a member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the ABA Labor & Employment Law Section (LELS) governing Council.  She previously served as Co-Chair of the ABA LELS Annual Section Conference, Committee on Diversity in the Legal Profession, and Equal Employment Opportunity Committee.  In 2012, she served as President of the Bar Association of San Francisco, after many years as an officer and serving on the board of directors.  In 2014 and 2015, the Daily Journal named Ms. Dermody a “Top 100 Lawyer in California,” a “Top California Women Litigator,” and a “Leading Labor and Employment Attorney in California.”  She has been named a Northern California “Super Lawyer” every year since 2004, including being named a “Top 10 Lawyer” in 2014.  In 2006, the Daily Journal named Ms. Dermody one of California's “Top 20 lawyers under age 40.”  Ms. Dermody was named a “California Lawyer Attorney of the Year” by California Lawyer magazine in 2007 and a finalist for “Consumer Attorney of the Year” in 2006 by the Consumer Attorneys of California. She has also received numerous awards from charitable and civic organizations, including the National Association of Women Judges, the Anti-Defamation League, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, California Rural Legal Assistance, Legal Momentum, Centro Legal de la Raza, and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. Ms. Dermody received a B.A. degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall).  She clerked for the Hon. John T. Nixon, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, before joining Lieff Cabraser.  
 
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