Lena Cohen

Class Actions & Product Liability

• Representing a 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.
• Member of a team 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.

Government & Internal Investigations

• Representing a global investment management organization in a SEC investigation related to insider trading and compliance claims.
• Represented multiple private equity companies in internal investigations involving alleged financial fraud or other misconduct.
• Assisted in counseling multiple companies regarding their compliance programs.
• Represented a major financial institution in an investigation of alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering violations.

Commercial Litigation

• Representing federal contractor in litigation alleging tortious interference with contract.
• Representing federal contractor in federal quiet title action.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Representing an individual in a suit against the City of Los Angeles and an Official Police Garage for the wrongful seizure and sale of his vehicle in violation of his constitutional rights and federal and state laws prohibiting disability discrimination, as well as in a separate suit challenging the City of Los Angeles’s towing practices.

Participant in the Trial Advocacy Prosecution Program (TAPP), volunteering as a Special Deputy City Prosecutor for the City of Redondo Beach.

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.