Robin Cohen led McKool Smith LLP’s insurance recovery group before spinning that practice off into a standalone firm, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, of which she is the chair.
The new firm, a 21-lawyer litigation boutique focused on representing policyholders, is based in New York. The clients from McKool Smith stuck with the team as it spun off, including Verizon Communications Inc., which the firm in February helped win $95 million in coverage for its settlement in a bankruptcy suit.
Here, Cohen talks to Law360 Pulse about what it was like to start a new firm amid a pandemic and an “energizing” new wave of women leaving BigLaw to start boutiques. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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