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New York Drug and Device Litigation Lawyer
Overview
David Cohen has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of science, medicine, and the law. He has held lead science counsel positions in mass tort and individual lawsuits alleging personal injury, product liability, and theft of trade secrets. Most frequently, Mr. Cohen helps clients formulate medical defense strategies to rebut allegations of disease diagnosis and causation...
David Cohen has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of science, medicine, and the law. He has held lead science counsel positions in mass tort and individual lawsuits alleging personal injury, product liability, and theft of trade secrets. Most frequently, Mr. Cohen helps clients formulate medical defense strategies to rebut allegations of disease diagnosis and causation...
David Cohen has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of science, medicine, and the law. He has held lead science counsel positions in mass tort and individual lawsuits alleging personal injury, product liability, and theft of trade secrets. Most frequently, Mr. Cohen helps clients formulate medical defense strategies to rebut allegations of disease diagnosis and causation. He has led challenges to the admissibility of expert witness opinion testimony, culminating in courtroom roles at Daubert, Frye, and Havner proceedings.
Mr. Cohen is pragmatic, efficient, and versatile. In some cases, he handles the science of the case alone, while in others he collaborates with co-counsel in federal multidistrict litigations and state court actions. Regardless of the size or complexity of the matter, Mr. Cohen works closely with clients to develop and deploy effective, science-based resources. He maintains relationships with leading research institutions and medical schools from which he is able to retain expert witnesses for consulting and testifying.
During his career, Mr. Cohen has cross-examined more than 90 doctors, scientists, and other witnesses with technical knowledge. His experience spans many disciplines in medicine and science, including: epidemiology, neuroscience, pathology, toxicology, pharmacology, radiology, neurology, cardiology, pulmonology, and cancer.
Mr. Cohen also advises clients on policies and procedures to reduce litigation risk. He lectures at Continuing Legal Education seminars, where he demonstrates techniques of effective expert witness examination. Mr. Cohen has addressed industry groups in South Korea and in South Africa on mass tort litigation in the United States.
Mr. Cohen served as a law clerk for two years to Federal District Court Judge D. Brook Bartlett in the Western District of Missouri at Kansas City.
About David M. Cohen
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner
Practice Areas
- Drug and Device Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Litigation and Science and Technology Law)
- Defense Research Institute
- Food and Drug Law Institute
- New York Academy of Sciences
Classes and Seminars
- "Out of the Frye-ing Pan, Into the Hearing", State of New York Unified Court System Judicial Seminar, New York, 2002 - Present
- "Litigating Kumho Tire, Daubert, and Frye in State and Federal Courts", New York State Bar Association Seminar, 2002 - Present
- "Daubert and Mass Tort Litigation", Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana, 2002 - Present
- "Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom: A Strategic Overview for Pharmaceutical Professionals", 37th Annual Meeting, Drug Information Association, Denver, 2001 - Present
- "Expert Witnesses", Marino Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New York, 2000 - Present
Past Positions
- Federal District Court's Honorable D. Brook Bartlett in the Western District of Missouri at Kansas City, Law Clerk
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 1986
J.D. - Union College, New York, 1983
B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude - London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1981
Articles
Published Works
- "Tiptoeing Through Mass Tort Litigation", Risk Management Magazine, April, 2001
Office Information
Address
810 Seventh AvenueSuite 1105 New York, NY 10019
Phone
Fax
- (646) 606-3995
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Past Lists
- 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2012 New York — Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2011 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2010 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2009 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2008 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2007 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
- 2006 New York Metro Super Lawyers list
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