Caitlin Woods is an associate in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office. She has worked on mass tort, sexual abuse, personal injury, civil rights, employment, and antitrust matters.
Caitlin was a member of Plaintiffs’ leadership team in the Uber passenger sexual assault multi-district litigation alleging negligence by the rideshare giant in preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual violence by drivers. Caitlin was also a member of Plaintiffs’ leadership and trial teams in the JUUL e-cigarette multi-district litigation. Caitlin second-chaired depositions of JUUL’s CEO, Altria’s CEO, JUUL’s co-founder, and JUUL’s tobacco marketing expert, as well as voir dire in the first and only bellwether trial.
As a law student, Caitlin externed at the Northern District of California and interned for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Caitlin continues to pursue her commitment to gun violence prevention at Lieff Cabraser through advocacy on behalf of victims and their families.
Caitlin previously served as a Co-Chair of the Asian American Bar Association’s Women’s and Civil Rights Committees.
Before practicing law, Caitlin worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as a congressional aide to then-House Democratic Whip, Steny H. Hoyer.
Publications & Presentations
•Speaker, “Uber Sex Assault” HarrisMartin MDL Conference, September 2024
•Panelist, “Tricks for Tricky Issues in Sex Abuse/Assault Cases,” CAOC Sonoma Travel Seminar, March 2024
•Panelist, “Associate Perspective on Mass Litigation,” Trial Lawyers of Mass Torts Park City, Utah Conference, February 2024
•Speaker, “Juul MDL,” San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Ski and CLE Program, January 2023
In the News
•June 30, 2025
28 Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Selected as 2025 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
•November 18, 2024
Lieff Cabraser JUUL Litigation Team Wins CAOC Consumer Attorney of the Year Award
•September 17, 2024
Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Organize and Speak at September 25 HarrisMartin MDL Conference in Nashville
•March 8, 2024
Caitlin Woods to Speak at CAOC Seminar Panel on “Tricky Issues in Sex Abuse/Assault Cases”
•February 20, 2024
Kelly McNabb and Caitlin Woods to Speak at Upcoming Trial Lawyers of Mass Torts Conference in Park City Utah
Awards
•“Rising Star for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2025
•“Consumer Attorney of the Year,” Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), 2024