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Rick Cohen, managing partner of the firm's Phoenix office, brings extensive experience in every facet of employment law, with primary emphasis on employment discrimination at the administrative, trial and appellate levels. He also has a substantial mediation and arbitration practice. He advises both private and public employers on day-to-day legal issues affecting the workplace, including employee discipline and terminations, sexual harassment and other employee misconduct, workforce reductions, discrimination claims, drug testing, non-compete provisions, workplace privacy, disability accommodations and other human resources issues. Rick also has experience negotiating and preparing executive employment agreements and executive separation packages.
Taking a proactive approach when advising clients, he emphasizes creative solutions to employee relations problems and routinely counsels management about ways to prevent costly and protracted litigation. He teaches clients' executives, managers and supervisors how to make sound human resource decisions, while at the same time minimizing wrongful termination, discrimination and sexual harassment claims.
Rick frequently represents employers in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies and administrative law judges on a variety of litigation matters involving the employer-employee relationship and has successfully defended employers in several of the most significant class action lawsuits in the Southwest.
Rick is a member of the State Bar of Arizona and the American Bar Association's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, a member of the Labor Law Section, and a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation Subcommittee of the Litigation Section.
Rick has lectured before many associations and professional groups, and has served as a faculty member for numerous State Bar programs. He has served as co-chairman of the Arizona Fair Employment Practices Committee and as a faculty member on the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy. In 1991, he became the first person from Arizona appointed to the National Council for Excellence in Government. For the past ten years, Rick has also served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for Free Arts of Arizona, a non-profit organization which provides assistance to homeless and abused children in Arizona.
Rick has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America ®, in the category of Labor and Employment Law for over ten years, and is listed in the highest tier of Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers in the category of Labor and Employment Law. Rick is also AV® Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Education
George Washington University Law School
J.D., with honors, 1971
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
B.A., 1968
Bar Admissions
Arizona
Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Class Actions
Discrimination
Employment Law
Layoffs/Plant Closings
Litigation
Whistleblower.
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