Lena Cohen

Class Actions & Product Liability

• Representing pest and animal control company in its defense against multiple putative nationwide class actions alleging breach of warranty and false advertising claims.
• Representing DIRECTV in several antitrust class actions brought by residential and commercial subscribers of NFL Sunday Ticket.
• Representing ZF TRW in multi-district litigation encompassing more than two dozen nationwide class actions alleging breach of warranty, fraud, and other claims based on allegedly defective airbag control units.
• Representing producer of baked goods in false advertising litigation regarding the characteristics of its products.

Government & Internal Investigations

• Advised private equity company regarding potential SEC inquiry.
• Represented a private equity company in an internal investigation involving alleged financial fraud.
• Represented a major financial institution in an investigation of alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering violations.

Commercial Litigation

• Representing a retail parent company in a copyright infringement action.
• Represented a real estate entity in a multi-million dollar judgment enforcement and fraudulent transfer action.

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

• Member of the trial team in more than a half dozen criminal trials in federal and state felony prosecutions, as well as the MDL trial of a multi-billion dollar company related to the 2010 BP Oil Spill.
• Supported civil litigation, internal investigations, and criminal, white collar, and regulatory defense matters, including SEC investigations, RICO prosecutions, 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.
• 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

Litigation Specialist, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP

Representing classes of individuals seeking to hold the City of Houston responsible for maintaining a policy and practice of detaining individuals arrested without a warrant for unreasonable periods of time without a probable cause hearing, in violation of the United States Constitution and Texas state law. Achieved successful class certification of both classes.

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.