A TRANSPORTATION LAW PRACTICE
WHAT WE DO
Cohen & Frey offers a national litigation and consulting practice with significant experience in transportation related litigation and contracting. Areas of expertise include catastrophic incident/large loss recovery and subrogation, casualty and work injury claims, cargo claims (Carmack, COGSA, contract), maritime property damage claims to infrastructure/bridges, business litigation, bankruptcy, environmental claims, coverage disputes, freight charge disputes, freight intermediary issues, transportation and warehouse contracting.
We continue a long-standing practice of providing litigation and consulting services to Class 1 and shortline railroads, motor carriers, third party logistics companies among others.
WE ARE NATIONAL
Cohen & Frey handles matters nationally because our clients operate nationally. Our attorneys are admitted to practice before twenty-seven federal district courts and seven circuit courts across the country. The publishers of ALM's Corporate Counsel® magazine have named Cohen & Frey P.C. a "Go-To Law Firm" in its reference guide to in-house law departments at the nation's top 500 companies (based on revenue). Less than half of 1% of all the law firms in the U.S. and abroad are included in the "Go-To Law Firm" list. Cohen & Frey’s leadership is reflected in our work product resulting in dozens of reported U.S. District Courts and U.S. Courts of Appeal rulings.
WE ARE EFFICIENT
Every client is unique, and each case presents its own challenges. We will gladly discuss staffing, rates, and fee arrangements that address a client’s particular needs. And beyond individual disputes or consulting engagements, we understand that some clients desire a consistent, value-driven, and programmatic approach to case management. For instance, we maintain a respected, multi-state program for the recovery of demurrage charges (rail car overuse charges) that pairs recovery litigation with monitoring of regulatory developments through the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. We will gladly discuss an approach that could work for you.
WE COMMUNICATE
Unknown case status. Missed diaries. Case evaluations that pivot 180 degrees at the eleventh hour. These things don’t need to happen. At Cohen & Frey, we prioritize picking up the phone, reporting consistently, and keeping our clients informed. We work to mesh with our clients’ internal review processes because we understand that timely reporting is essential to management analysis. We prepare monthly or quarterly reports on case status that can be tailored to include the metrics and data required by our clients.
WE TELL YOUR STORY
Our advocacy is not dependent on whether our clients find themselves in the procedural posture of being the plaintiff, defendant, intervenor, or otherwise. It’s about finding real-world solutions to problems for clients whose needs are diverse. And in litigation, it’s about developing the facts, evidence, witnesses, and experts required to tell your story the way it ought to be told to the judge and jury.
Our firm has prosecutorial experience in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, as well as commercial, personal injury, and subrogation experience building plaintiff-side cases brick by brick around the country. We attend to the details, and in the past have successfully identified damages sets that could have gone overlooked. And when the shoe is on the other foot, we defend claims vigorously be marshalling the witnesses and experts necessary to examine plaintiffs’ claims and hold plaintiffs to their twin burdens of production and persuasion.
ALTERNATIVE FEE STRUCTURES
In order to manage client expenses, maximize efficiency, and ensure that Cohen & Frey's interests are fully aligned with our clients’ interests, Cohen & Frey regularly implements fee arrangements based on agreed measures of value rather than on the billable hour. While hourly billing certainly remains an available option, in certain collection / expenditure recovery / subrogation matters Cohen & Frey offers alternate fee structures such as:
- partial contingency fee / partial hourly fee
- partial contingency fee / partial flat fee
- flat fee for handling all collections / recovery work
- full contingency fee