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With a diverse practice that includes both litigation and transactional elements, Jonathan Cohen's focus at Gilbert LLP is on the resolution of complex, multiparty disputes involving insurance and bankruptcy issues.
Jonathan has represented corporate and other policyholders with respect to a wide range of coverage matters, including bodily injury and property damage coverage, food-contamination coverage, directors' and officers' coverage, product recall coverage, technology-related property damage coverage, advertising injury coverage and pharmaceutical-related coverage issues. Jonathan has worked at the forefront of insurance issues relating to mass-tort bankruptcies, representing corporate debtors, claimant committees and bankruptcy trusts in numerous proceedings and negotiations. Additionally, Jonathan has advised corporate and other clients regarding global resolutions to mass tort problems, including settlement class actions, super-excess insurance products and bankruptcy.
Jonathan also has an active pro bono practice and is
co-chair of the Firm’s Pro-Bono Committee.
Together with other Gilbert LLP lawyers, Jonathan wrote amicus briefs in
five U.S. Supreme Court cases involving race-based civil rights issues, including
affirmative action cases, a case involving Native Hawaiians' land rights, and a
case involving a voter identification requirement. He assisted a client in preparing testimony
before Congress supporting the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. He authored a brief filed in the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals successfully challenging the constitutionality of INS
regulations on behalf of a Kosovar Albanian applying for political asylum. Jonathan served as pro bono counsel in three
immigration-related appeals in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He negotiated a change in the policy of the
