As Chair of Polsinelli’s nationwide Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Co-Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office, Noel Cohen works closely with clients to build relationships and manage their legal needs both in and out of the courtroom. Noel combines strong advocacy skills, litigation experience and an understanding of clients’ business goals to deliver results in high profile and novel cases through settlement, arbitration and trial. His national litigation practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, class action defense and employment defense.

He has significant experience in actions involving:

• Litigating complex actions involving breach of contract and fiduciary duties, shareholder disputes, corporate governance issues, false advertising, intellectual property, and other general business contract and tort claims.
• Defending class actions with legal issues involving consumer-protection statutes and privacy laws including claims brought under California's Business & Professions Code Section 17200, Business & Professions Code Section 17600, Consumer Legal Remedies Act and other state and federal statutes.
• Defending claims of wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, misappropriation of trade secrets and other employment disputes in single plaintiff claims in state and federal court and before various administrative agencies.

Clients include individuals and companies of all sizes and ranges of industries, including non-profits, sports, entertainment, food and beverage, apparel, financial services and technology.