Connor Cohen

Connor Cohen represents plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes cases across the country. He has experience in a wide range of complex civil disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, antitrust, breach of fiduciary duty, false claims, defamation, employment, and intellectual property. Connor plays an integral role in all his cases. He has taken and defended key depositions, argued at hearings, including on dispositive motions, and briefed appeals. 

NOTABLE REPRESENTATIONS

Connor currently represents Nu Ride (formerly known as Lordstown Motors Corporation) and its subsidiary, Lordstown EV Corporation, in an adversary proceeding against manufacturing conglomerate Foxconn, seeking billions of dollars in damages for breach of contract and fraud. Although Foxconn moved to dismiss or compel all eleven of Lordstown’s claims into arbitration, the Delaware Bankruptcy Court ruled that nine of those claims should proceed in federal court. On appeal to the District Court, Connor and his team successfully defended the Bankruptcy Court’s arbitration denial. Read the District Court’s opinion here. Connor also represents Lordstown in related international arbitration. 

Connor represents a putative class of thousands of life-insurance policyholders in a breach-of-contract case against a major Canadian insurance company, Sun Life. Read the Massachusetts District Court’s opinion denying Sun Life’s motion for summary judgment here.

Connor also represents a whistleblower in qui tam False Claims Act litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Connor and his team successfully opposed the defendants’ motions to dismiss. 

BACKGROUND

Connor joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Virginia M. Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where he served as a Managing Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and a student attorney in the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Center on Wrongful Convictions.  Before law school, Connor was a professional ballet dancer. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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