New York Motion Practice Handbook and Forms

Daniel A. Cohen is Senior Counsel to Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP in New York City. Cohen has extensive litigation experience in the state and federal courts of New York, in both the trial courts and the appellate courts. His practice areas include complex commercial litigation, corporate governance, employment disputes, securities fraud, RICO, insurance coverage, and judgment enforcement.

Cohen publishes regularly on matters relating to civil procedure. Cohen is a former chair of the New York County Lawyers Association committee on insurance and since 2013 has been the author of New York Motion Practice, published annually by New York Law Journal Books. Cohen also was a founding member of the Board of ALM’s online publication, New York Smart Litigator and a frequent contributor of Ask the Expert columns for that publication.

Cohen graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He received graduate degrees in philosophy from Oxford University and the University of Michigan before graduating from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994, where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. After law school, Cohen clerked for the Hon. J. Edward Lumbard on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals before entering private practice.