Derek A. Cohen

Derek A. Cohen is widely recognized as a leading trial lawyer with over 30 years’ experience investigating, defending and counseling clients in high stakes litigation matters.  His practice focuses on financial fraud, commercial litigation,  investigations, criminal defense, and courtroom advocacy.

Derek is a highly decorated former federal prosecutor and seasoned trial lawyer. Derek regularly represents U.S. and foreign companies and individuals in a wide range of criminal and regulatory investigations by federal, state and local authorities, including, among others, allegations of healthcare fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, bribery, False Claims Act, sanctions/export violations, product recalls, antitrust, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. He also has significant experience in complex commercial litigation matters and internal investigations.

Derek is the recipient of the highest awards bestowed by the Department of Justice and the FBI for his work as a federal prosecutor.

"Derek is highly skilled" and " . . .is a really talented trial lawyer." - Chambers USA, 2024

Clients benefit from Derek's extensive prior prosecutorial experience. He served in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was Deputy Chief of the Division's Fraud Section. Derek also previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, where he prosecuted some of the office's most significant white-collar matters. Derek began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan under the Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau.

He has taught Trial Advocacy at Temple Law School and has guest lectured at Harvard and Penn Law Schools in the area of white-collar crime.  He currently serves on the Tulane Law School Intersession Faculty for Criminal Law.