Douglas Cohen
Douglas Cohen
Partner

Doug Cohen is a partner with Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP. Doug practices in the areas of catastrophic personal injury, products liability, employment, business litigation, and medical malpractice for plaintiffs. Doug has garnered multi-million-dollar awards for personal injury plaintiffs.

EDUCATION
  • J.D., University of Dayton School of Law
  • B.A., cum laude, Tulane University
  • Junior Year, University of East Anglia, England
ADMISSIONS
  • Nevada
  • Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Southern Ohio
MEMBERSHIPS
  • Mediator, U.S. District Court, Nevada, Early Mediation Program for Section 1983 Inmate Cases
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, State Bar of Nevada
  • Member, Business & Professional Organization of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas
  • Executive Board Member and Member of the Board of Directors for the Las Vegas division of the Anti-Defamation League
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
  • Author, Nevada section, “Tort Law Desk Reference-a Fifty-State Compendium,” Wolters Kluwer, 2016
HONORS & OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES
  • Nevada’s Legal Elite 2021 – The Silver State’s Top Attorneys
  • Lawyers of Distinction – Personal Injury 2018-2023
  • The American Registry, Top Attorneys in the Mountain States – 2018
  • AV® Preeminent ™ Peer Review Rated (the highest rating available), by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Best Lawyers in America®, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2005-2024
  • Best Lawyers in America®, Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2018-2024
  • Mountain States Super Lawyers®, Personal Injury – General: Plaintiff, 2007-2017
  • Nevada’s Best Lawyers®, 2015
  • Vegas Inc Top Lawyers, 2015
  • MYVEGAS Magazine 2021 Top 100 Lawyers

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