Attorneys
Practice Group Leaders
Frederick H. Cohen 
In 2007, the National Law Journal featured Fred Cohen in its list of ten of the nation's top litigators. Mr. Cohen has built his reputation litigating false claims act cases and other complex commercial disputes. He has amassed a string of courtroom victories, and in his most recent victory obtained the largest jury verdict in the history of the False Claims Act.
Based on his trial successes, the National Advocacy Center, which is run by the United States Department of Justice, invited Mr. Cohen to be on its faculty to train experienced Assistant United States Attorneys on trial skills. He was invited to be a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School and currently teaches a course on legal ethics.
- Awarded the 2007 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the Public Justice Foundation and a finalist in 2006
- 2006 recipient of the Excellence in Pro Bono Award from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Received the 2005 American Academy of Pediatrics Child Health Advocate of the Year Award
- 2004 recipient of the Equal Justice Award from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
Mr. Cohen is the former Chairman of Goldberg Kohn's Technology Committee, and he has particular expertise in e-discovery issues. He is currently a member of Goldberg Kohn's Management and Compensation Committees.
Recognizing his expertise, Mr. Cohen has appeared on "Good Morning America" and The "ABC Evening News" with Charles Gibson. He was interviewed, along with United States Senator Byron Dorgan and Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, for Sky Radio Network’s “Designing a 21st Century Health Care System: the New Medicare and Medicaid Law, and the Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act II” (audio interview). He has also been quoted in numerous publications around the country.
David J. Chizewer 
David Chizewer, a principal in the firm's litigation group, was recently featured in the National Law Journal’s list of 10 of the nation’s top litigators. In 2007, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Public Justice Foundation. He was a runner-up for that same award in 2006.
Mr. Chizewer served as co-lead trial counsel in two of the country's most prominent public interest cases to be tried in the past several years:
- In October 2006, Mr. Chizewer was co-lead trial counsel for Plaintiffs, and obtained the largest verdict in the history of the federal False Claim Act, in the case captioned, United States of America ex. rel. Cleveland A. Tyson, et al. v. Amerigroup Corporation, et al., pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
- In May 2004, Mr. Chizewer was co-lead trial counsel for a class of 600,000 children on Medicaid against the State of Illinois in the case captioned, Memisovski, et al. v. Patla, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, obtaining a judgment that secured some of the most sweeping reforms ever to a state Medicaid program.
In 2006, for his efforts in the Memisovski case, Mr. Chizewer was the recipient of the Excellence in Pro Bono Award from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 2005, he received the Child Advocate Award from the American Association of Pediatrics.
On the defense side, Mr. Chizewer has been entrusted to try and defend bet-the-company cases, including trying a case in a rural, plaintiff-friendly district, where he obtained a remarkable result, even in the face of extreme jury bias. He currently serves as lead counsel to one of the principal defendants in the Multi-District Class Action Litigation captioned, In Re Ocwen Federal Bank Mortgage Servicing Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mr. Chizewer has served as an expert witness on issues of federal civil procedure and is a frequent author and speaker, including a presentation at the National Advocacy Center on strategies for trying a health care fraud case.