Caitlin Woods is a partner in Lieff Cabraser’s San Francisco office. She has worked on sexual abuse, personal injury, civil rights, employment, and antitrust matters, and focuses primarily on mass torts.
Caitlin has been a member of Plaintiffs’ leadership and trial teams in multiple coordinated proceedings in the Northern District of California, including the JUUL e-cigarette MDL, the Uber passenger sexual assault MDL, the social media adolescent addiction MDL, and the Roblox child sexual exploitation MDL.
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
•January 2, 2026
Caitlin Woods Named a Firm Partner for 2026
•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”
Awards
•“Rising Star for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2025
•“Consumer Attorney of the Year,” Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), 2024