Lena Cohen

Since joining Kirkland, Lena has been involved in the following matters: 

• Advises client regarding potential SEC inquiry.
• Represents a creditor in a multi-million dollar judgment enforcement and fraudulent transfer action.
• Represents defendant in product liability putative class action.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Lena was involved in the following matters:

• Served as lead trial paralegal in the successful defense of a multi-billion dollar company in the 2010 BP Oil Spill multi-district litigation.
• Supported civil litigation, internal investigations, and criminal, white collar, and regulatory defense matters, including SEC investigations, FCPA investigations, and qui tam actions.
• Experience includes designing and conducting extensive fact development projects; creating trial demonstratives; managing a team of contract attorneys; preparing for witness interviews and depositions.
• Member of the trial team in more than a half dozen criminal trials in federal and state felony prosecutions, as well as supported criminal investigations of federal fraud and RICO cases.
• Drafted the sentencing memorandum that resulted in a substantial reduction of sentence: from a sentencing guideline range of 70 to 87 months of confinement to a sentence imposed of probation.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Summer 2016

Litigation Specialist, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, May 2012–December 2013

Representing class of individuals seeking compensatory damages from the City of Houston for its unlawful practice of detaining arrestees without ensuring they receive prompt probable cause determinations within the constitutionally-required period of time

Participated in the successful representation of the first “parent trigger” charter school in the nation in dispute against the Adelanto Elementary School District over the charter’s rights to the school facility