Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna

In her 30-plus-year career as one of the nation’s foremost litigators, Robin Cohen has consistently taken on—and beaten—the world’s largest insurance companies. Recognized as one of the most effective and innovative insurance lawyers in the world, Robin has recovered over $10 billion for policyholder plaintiffs like Pfizer, Walmart, CBS, Verizon, and AMC. These and other blue-chip corporations repeatedly choose her to secure coverage for catastrophic losses.

Among other groundbreaking results, Robin secured the extremely rare reversal of a jury verdict, while representing Conduent State Healthcare in its pursuit of insurance coverage relating to a $236 million Medicaid settlement. The decision was recently upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court. Robin’s work has also established precedent in vital areas of D&O insurance, including a recent major win for Harman International Industries, when the Delaware Supreme Court held that a “bump-up” exclusion in a D&O policy did not bar coverage for Harman’s $28 million settlement of an underlying shareholder class action.

Outside the courtroom, Robin focuses on bet-the-company insurance issues that materially impact the bottom line for her clients. Organizations rely on her to address coverage questions stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, governmental investigations, securities litigation against directors and officers, regulatory developments, and computer system breaches.

In 2021, Robin co-founded Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna, which has quickly become a national powerhouse. Under her leadership as chair, the firm has more than tripled in size, attracting top talent from Am Law 100 firms and Fortune 100 companies. Before founding Cohen Ziffer, Robin practiced at McKool Smith, Kasowitz, and Dickstein Shapiro.

Robin is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Central District of Illinois, District of New Jersey, Eastern and Northern and Southern Districts of New York, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Eastern District of Texas, and the Tenth Circuit.

Robin received her B.A. from University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and her J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986.