Cohen Milstein is First U.S. Plaintiffs' Law Firm to Open Office in Europe

Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, one of the largest and most effective class action law firms in the United States, will be opening its first international law office in London in January 2007.

Although it has particular expertise in class actions in the United States, Cohen Milstein intends to pursue litigation on behalf of individual companies or small groups of companies (as opposed to claims on behalf of dozens, hundreds or thousands, as in the U.S.), as well as group litigation, when it opens its office in the UK. This litigation will focus primarily on competition and securities violations, but the law firm will also offer commercial and regulatory counseling to businesses in the competition area. Cohen Milstein also intends to pursue claims involving human rights violations, employment discrimination, and mass torts (such as harmful drug cases) through its London office.

Cohen Milstein is renowned for its successes in some of the largest and most socially progressive class actions ever brought.. The law firm, which numbers over 60 attorneys in its four U.S. offices (Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago), is well-known for its representation of Holocaust victims against the major Swiss Banks and the Swiss Government for their improper retention of assets from victims of World War II; its representation of Native Alaskans for damages to their way of life resulting from the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill; its representation of slave and forced laborers of German companies during World War II; and its representation of victims of Apartheid against various South African companies. Cohen Milstein also has substantial experience litigating environmental and mass tort litigation in the United States.

Most recently, Cohen Milstein obtained certification of the largest class action ever permitted in America, a class composed of millions of "light" cigarette smokers who were defrauded by the major international cigarette companies into believing that "light" cigarettes were safer than regular cigarettes.

With regard to business-related litigation, Cohen Milstein is a premiere antitrust/competition claimants’ law firm in the United States. It has represented victims of cartels and illegal monopolization in most of the major group antitrust litigation in the United States. These victims include foreign claimants whose claims Cohen Milstein has pursued in U.S. courts. The firm also is well known for its representation of shareholders in securities fraud litigation, another context in which Cohen Milstein has represented foreign claimants in U.S. courts. Cohen Milstein has also pioneered some of the leading decisions in the field of employment discrimination.

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