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  Stephanie J. Cohen
Partner


PRACTICES
 Business & Financial Services Litigation

CONTACT
Four Gateway Center
100 Mulberry Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel. 973.639.2026
Fax. 973.624.7070
scohen@mccarter.com

EDUCATION
J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 1996
B.A., Colorado College, magna cum laude, 1993

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New Jersey
New York
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York


MEMBERSHIPS AND
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Bar Association, Securities Litigation and Women Rainmakers Committees
New Jersey Bar Association, Women in the Profession Committee
National Association of Women Lawyers
New Jersey Women Lawyers Association
New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners
Defense Research Institute, Commercial Litigation and Diversity Committees
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance & Legal Division
85 Broads, New York Chapter Leadership Team
Brennan/Vanderbilt Inn of Court -- Barrister


 

Stephanie Cohen is a partner in McCarter & English's Business & Financial Services Litigation Group.  Associated with the Firm since 1998, she is an experienced trial attorney.  Ms. Cohen regularly represents clients in state and federal courts in New Jersey, New York, and other jurisdictions throughout the United States.  She also has experience in the arbitration of securities matters before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the National Association of Securities Dealers, and has lectured on the process of discovery in connection with securities arbitrations.
 
Ms. Cohen concentrates her practice on complex commercial litigation involving sales practices, suitability, securities fraud, ERISA, broker-dealer, hedge fund, and regulatory matters.  Her clients include Fortune 100 Companies as well as large financial institutions.  She regularly defends multi-million dollar disputes.  Ms. Cohen currently is involved in defending a multi-party, multi-billion dollar dispute in the Southern District of New York arising from the collapse and subsequent bankruptcies of an international prime broker, hedge fund, and investment manager. 
 
Ms. Cohen has extensive class action experience.  From 1998 through 2007, she was an integral member of a team of lawyers who served as national coordinating counsel for a large financial services company.  During that time, she assisted in defending a nationwide class action as well as managing hundreds of individual state and federal court cases.
 
Ms. Cohen sits on the Steering Committee for the McCarter & English Women's Initiative. She is co-editor of the Initiative's quarterly newsletter "Women in the kNOW," and director of the Initiative's "Leadership Academy" (which provides business development and leadership training to women attorneys in the Firm).

PUBLICATIONS

07/22/10 New Fee-Shifting Regime Under ERISA in Wake of 'Hardt', New York Law Journal

02/01/10 The Importance of Business Development for Women Associates and Junior Partners, The Woman Advocate, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Winter 2010 edition


SPEAKING

4/14/09 -- Panelist, Rutgers Law School, Newark: The Economic Downturn and the Importance of Effective Job Seeking/Networking

11/20/09 -- Faculty Member: Ms. JD's Third Annual Conference on Women in Law -- Avenues to Advancement

IN THE MEDIA

10/01/08 McCarter & English Names 15 New Partners

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Loguidice v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 336 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2003)

Delande v. ING Employee Benefits, 2004 WL 2360991 (3d Cir. Oct. 19, 2004)

Baker v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 907 So.2d 419 (Ala. 2005)

Perry v. New England Securities, Inc., NASD 04-06948 (September 8, 2005)

Buck Consultants, Inc. v. Glenpointe Assocs., 2004 WL 5370571 (D.N.J. Jul. 23, 2004), aff'd in part reversed in part, 2007 WL 431149 (3d Cir. Feb. 9, 2007)

In re Individual Health Coverage Program, 2007 WL 2416776 (N.J. App. Div. Aug. 28, 2007)

Ciccone v. Hersh, et. al., 530 F. Supp. 2d 574 (S.D.N.Y. 2008)