Roberta D. Liebenberg

Bobbi Liebenberg

Roberta D. Liebenberg

Roberta (“Bobbi”) Liebenberg is a Senior Partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black in Philadelphia and also a Principal in The Red Bee Group, a women-owned consulting group that uses data-based strategies to attain DEI objectives. She serves on a number of boards, including the American Antitrust Institute, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, the American Bar Endowment, the American Jewish Committee-Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and was on the board of the YWCA USA and Chair of the Board of the Anti-Defamation League-Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. She is also on the board of the ABA Retirement Funds, which has over $7 billion in assets and 37,000 participants, and will become Board Chair in August 2023. She is a Co-Founder of DirectWomen and served as its Chair from 2013-2018, as well as a member of its board from 2011 until 2022. She focuses her practice on antitrust, class actions, and complex commercial litigation, and has been appointed by courts to represent classes in many class actions. She is now Lead Counsel for the End Payer Class in the Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, which is the largest pending antitrust MDL in the country. She was also one of the trial counsel for the class in the Urethanes Antitrust Litigation, where a $1.06 billion judgment was entered against Dow Chemical Company after a four-week jury trial. That was the largest price-fixing judgment ever and was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit. During Dow’s appeal to the Supreme Court, it settled for $835 million, the most ever obtained from a single defendant in a price-fixing case. She has also defended Fortune 500 companies, including Southwest Airlines and Temple University, in class actions and other complex commercial litigation. She has written and spoken extensively about many issues of importance to women lawyers and has served as Chair of numerous organizations devoted to gender equality in the profession, including the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the ABA Gender Equity Task Force, the ABA Presidential Initiative on Achieving Long Term Careers for Women in Law, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations’ respective committees on women in the profession, and the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness. She has been honored with many awards, including being named as the 2023 recipient of DirectWomen’s Mary Ann Jorgenson Board Empowerment Award; induction into the American Antitrust Institute Private Enforcement Hall of Fame and the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s “Hall of Fame-inism;” the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession;  the Judge Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee;  the Lynette Norton Award from the Pennsylvania Bar Association; the Sandra Day O’Connor Award and Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association; the Florence K. Murray Award from the National Association of Women Judges; the Hortense Ward Courageous Leader Award from the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas School of Law; the Martha Fay Africa Golden Hammer Award from the ABA’s Law Practice Division;  and Lifetime Achievement Awards from Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Legal Intelligencer. She was named by former Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell as a “Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania;” The National Law Journal named her as one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America” and also one of the “Elite Women of the Plaintiffs’ Bar;” Law360 named her as a “Titan of the Plaintiffs’ Bar;” and Business Today named her as one of the “Top Ten Influential Antitrust Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Shaping U.S. Law-Nation’s Legal Titans.”