Butler Snow is pleased to announce that [professional id=”2366″] has been selected to the 2016 New York Metro Super Lawyers list.
“David has vast experience defending complex product liability litigation and has a unique talent for developing highly effective medical and scientific strategies and resources vital to defending those cases,” said Don Clark, Jr., chairman of Butler Snow. “We congratulate him on this well-deserved accomplishment.”
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For 18 consecutive years, Cohen has furnished trial teams with scientific and medical defense resources, formulated science defense strategies, and cross-examined more than 100 treating physicians and expert witnesses at depositions and evidentiary hearings in complex litigation and mass tort product liability litigation. Cohen practices with the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industry group.
Cohen is a member of The New York Academy of Sciences, the London Medico-Legal Society, the American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute and is sustaining member of the Product Liability Advisory Council. He has been named to The Legal 500 U.S., The Best Lawyers in America® for product liability litigation and defense and New York Super Lawyer® for products liability. He received his undergraduate degree from Union College and his Juris Doctor from Fordham University.
With increasingly complex regulatory and policy challenges in the pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industry, comes the corresponding need for businesses to have at their disposal sound legal guidance and effective counsel to manage ongoing legal exposure and resultant multi-district litigation. Butler Snow’s pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industry team provides clients with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary legal team to minimize legal exposure, litigate through resolution, and handle crisis management. Few firms in the United States have been called upon as often as Butler Snow’s firm to serve as local, regional or national counsel in significant pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare cases. Butler Snow’s litigators play leading roles in federal multi-district proceedings and try a broad range of cases, including bellwether cases.