Frederick Cohen

is a trial lawyer with more than 35 years' experience in construction matters. His experience includes resolving issues involving delays, defective performance and structural failures. He also has resolved many cases through alternative dispute resolution procedures.

Mr. Cohen's practice focuses upon the representation of owner-developers, nonprofit institutions, contractors and sureties in both the private and public sectors. In addition to his litigation practice, he has negotiated and prepared complex construction contracts for hospitals, university residence halls, office buildings and high-rise residential buildings.

In 2014 and 2018, Mr. Cohen was named a U.S. News/Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year for New York City Litigation - Construction. Mr. Cohen has also been recognized as one of the leading construction attorneys in New York in the 2008 through 2019 Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers.

A member of the American and New York State bar associations and of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and a graduate of Alfred University.

Resume

Honors and Awards

•Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, New York City Litigation - Construction, 2014 and 2018

•Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2020

•Listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2008-2020 editions

•Listed as a New York Super Lawyer in Construction Litigation, 2007-2019

•Listed in the New York Law Journal as a Top Rated Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2013
•Selected as one of the Top Rated Lawyers in Construction Law by The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, 2012
•Listed in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009-2011
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Liquidated Damages for Delayed Completion in Construction Contracts, New York Law Journal, December 15, 2015
•Featured in Duane Morris Attorneys Assist Brooklyn Law to Sell Building for $35M, New York Law Journal, September 30, 2015
•Featured in Constructing the Law: Frederick Cohen '67, BLS Law Notes, Fall 2010
•Co-author, Termination for Convenience of Construction Contracts, New York Law Journal, February 15, 2011