Practice Areas:

Appellate
Commercial Litigation
Employment Litigation, Counseling and Training
Pharmaceutical
Product Liability

Daniel Cohen is a Founding Partner and Hiring Partner for Coughlin Duffy LLP. He has extensive experience in state and federal courts in New Jersey and numerous other jurisdictions in the areas of complex, multi-party litigation, including class actions and mass tort litigation. His practice includes commercial litigation, pharmaceutical litigation, products liability, toxic tort litigation, labor and employment, appellate practice, contract disputes and white collar criminal defense.

Mr. Cohen acts as corporate counsel to a number of small, mid-sized and publicly-traded companies, which involves consultation in a variety of areas, including employment and human resource issues, business disputes, contract disputes, corporate and business formation needs, and the preparation, review and negotiation of all types of commercial contracts, including confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, licensing agreements, employment agreements, master service agreements, joint venture agreements, buy/sell agreements and vendor contracts.

Mr. Cohen also represents pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in the defense of complex liability and mass tort litigation as well as class actions. He has served as national counsel for a publicly traded premiere biopharmaceutical sales and marketing services provider in a nationwide mass tort involving a recalled prescription cholesterol-lowering pharmaceutical, and as New Jersey counsel for a major international pharmaceutical manufacturer in one of New Jersey's largest mass torts involving atypical antipsychotics. He has also handled cases involving a wide variety of prescription and OTC pharmaceuticals, including analgesics, hormone replacement therapy, pain medications, acne medications, and asthma medications.

Mr. Cohen also represents a variety of businesses that provide related services to the pharmaceutical industry. These clients, which range from publicly traded companies to small businesses, offer an array of services, including marketing, sales, market research, medical education programs, web-based patient education programs, and brand positioning.

Mr. Cohen served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Wilfred P. Diana, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, General Equity Part, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties, for the 1991-1992 Term. From 1992 to 1995, he served as a Somerset County Assistant Prosecutor.

Mr. Cohen has earned an AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell®, the highest rating for legal ability and general ethical standards.

Education:
Vermont Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1991)
Notes Editor, Vermont Law Review

University of Delaware (B.S. 1987)

Professional Admissions:
State of New Jersey (1991)
State of Maryland (1993)
District of Columbia (1994)

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1991

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2005)     

Memberships and Professional Activities:
Member, American Bar Association (Litigation and Labor and Employment Law Sections)
Member, New Jersey State Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law and Products and Toxic Tort Sections)
Member, Defense Research Institute
Member, New Jersey Defense Association

Honors:

Selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2009 and 2011

Selected by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of New Jersey's "Top 40 Under 40" in 2004.

Appointed by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman appointed to the Department of Corrections, Board of Trustees for the Youth Correctional Institutional Complex in 2000; and

Recognized by Essex County Volunteer Lawyers for Justice for pro bono services.

Contact:
P.O. Box 1917
350 Mount Kemble Avenue
Morristown, NJ 07962-1917

Direct Dial: (973) 631-6009
Facsimile: (973) 267-6442

E-mail:
dcohen@coughlinduffy.com