Lawrence R. Cohan, Esquire

Lawrence R. Cohan, a Shareholder of Anapol Schwartz, chairs the firms Toxic Tort Litigation Department and serves as Managing Partner and Senior Trial Counsel for our Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. He is a New Jersey Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Certified Trial Advocate with the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Cohan concentrates his practice in toxic torts including asbestos, chemicals and other dangerous products; pharmaceutical liability; vaccine related injuries; medical malpractice; products liability; FELA; and complex personal injury matters. Serving in leading roles in many complex cases, Mr. Cohan has forged new law in both the trial and appellate court levels in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. He has served as Plaintiffs Liaison Counsel in lead paint, asbestos and lymerix vaccine litigation. He served as lead counsel in the first and only lead poisoning case filed in Pennsylvania against the lead pigment industry, pursuing the novel "market share" theory of liability all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He also obtained the first plaintiffs verdict in an asbestos case in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with the first verdict of its kind against asbestos "friction" product defendants, GE, GTE and Eaton Cutler-Hammer Corporation. Mr. Cohan has obtained million dollar jury verdicts in toxic tort and medical malpractice cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He also represents victims suffering from adverse reactions to vaccines before the United States Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. On a regular basis, Mr. Cohan writes and lectures about toxic torts, pharmaceutical, asbestos, vaccine, lead and medical malpractice litigation, doing so on both local and national levels. He has lectured for many bar associations and trial lawyer associations, frequently serving as Chair of these conferences. A member of the Environmental Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Mr. Cohan has served in various bar association positions. He is a member of the American, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, as well as the American, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations. He is presently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He has also lobbied on behalf of children injured by lead poisoning with the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1976, Mr. Cohan earned his Bachelors degree, summa cum laude, from Boston University. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1979, where he served for two years as President of the Law School Environmental Law Group. (Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney) (Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)