Cohl Love is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. He has represented clients nationwide in a variety of high-stakes civil cases, including federal consumer class actions, complex contract disputes, and large-scale fraud complaints. Additionally, Cohl has taken a key role in developing and implementing trial strategy. Most recently, he served as trial counsel in a criminal action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Cohl also participates in extensive pro bono work, advocating for victims of abuse and trafficking and defending indigent clients in criminal actions. In addition to his litigation work, Cohl has contributed to the Mass Torts field, both by publishing independently with the American Bar Association on ongoing developments in the law and by working closely with Restatement drafter, Aaron D. Twerski, developing the latest edition of his leading Torts treatise.
Prior to joining the firm, Cohl interned for the Honorable Kiyo Matsumoto and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School where he was awarded the New York City Trial Lawyers Alliance Prize for Excellence in Trial Skill and the Alexander Mehr Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Advocacy in Moot Court Competitions. While attending law school, Cohl also received awards for excellence in the areas of Evidence, Torts, Civil Discovery, Conflicts of Law, Commercial Mediation and Arbitration, Professional Responsibility, and Personal Injuries and Medical Malpractice.
- Brooklyn Law School
(J.D., magna cum laude, 2022)- Brooklyn Law Review:
- Articles Editor
- Brooklyn Law Review:
- City College of New York
(B.A. Political Science, summa sum laude, 2019)
- The State Bar of New York
- The State Bar of California
- American Sign Language
- Judicial Intern to the Hon. Kiyo Matsumoto
- United States Court, Eastern District of New York (2020-2021)
- How to Respond to Expedited Trial Motions, A.B.A. AFTER THE BAR (Feb. 12, 2025)
- Handling a Hostile Witness: A Beginner’s Guide to Cross Examination, A.B.A. YOUNG LAWYER (Oct. 9, 2024)
- “At Home” Demolition: Opening the Floodgates of Forum Shopping, 22 A.B.A. MASS TORTS LITIG. NEWSL. 11 (2023)
- The Tragedy of International Comity: How Discretion Caused the Death of Foreign Immunity, 2 Int’l L. & Human Rts. J.135 (2021)
- “At Home” or Merely Visiting?: Either Way, the Court Says Business Contacts Can Slip in the Back Door, 35 A.B.A. Mass Torts Litig. Newsl. 18 (2021)
- The Pilot Episode of Presumptive Mediation: Will It See Primetime?, 14 N.Y. Dispute Resol. L. 28 (2021)
- Symposium: International Business Law: International Dispute Resolution at the Crossroads: Case Note of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Dennis J. Block Ctr. Int’l L. (Oct. 8, 2021)