Michael L. Cohen, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, is a civil litigator and trial attorney. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters including contract disputes, patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, class actions, shareholders derivative suits, personal injury, employment discrimination, invasion of privacy, legal malpractice, insurance coverage disputes, and bad-faith claims handling by insurance carriers. Michael has been listed in Southern California Super Lawyers every year since 2020 and was a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California “Streetfighter of the Year” award in 2010 and 2013. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Michael spent a year traveling throughout the United States interviewing hundreds of people in their twenties about their hopes, ambitions, and concerns about the future. His research became the basis for his book, The Twentysomething American Dream.
Programs & Lectures
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
Publications
•Recovering Emotional Distress Damages for Breach of an Insurance Contract Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, August 30, 2024
•Author, “Investigating and Prosecuting Bad-Faith Failure-to-Settle Cases After Pinto v. Farmers Insurance Exchange,” FORUM (Sept./Oct. 2023)
•Author, “Rethinking Damages for Breach of an Insurance Contract,” Advocate (Nov. 2022); Plaintiff (Dec. 2022)
•Coauthor, “Pursuing Insurance Agents and Brokers for Professional Negligence,” Advocate (Nov. 2015)
•Coauthor, “The Carrier’s Duty to Investigate,” Advocate (Aug. 2015)
•Coauthor, “Using Claims-Adjusting Experts in Bad-Faith Cases,” Advocate (Jul. 1, 2011 )
•Author, “Class actions: They Just Keep Making Things Harder,” Advocate (Jan.1, 2006)
•Author, The Twentysomething American Dream: A Cross-Country Quest for a Generation ( Dutton, 1993)
•Coauthor, “Developments in the Law-Medical Technology and the Law,” 103 Harvard Law Review 1519 (1990)
Events
Insurance Bad Faith
CAALA Vegas Las Vegas, August 31, 2024
Everything They Should Have Taught You in Law School About Reading an Insurance Policy (But Probably Didn't)
Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association (WTLA) 2024 Annual Convention Cody, WY, June 14, 2024
