Aasha Rajani is a fellow in Cohen Milstein’s Fellowship Program. In this role, she works on litigation matters spanning the firm’s antitrust, consumer protection, civil rights and employment litigation, human rights, and securities practice groups.

While attending Georgetown Law at night, Aasha worked at Public Citizen as a Policy Advocate before joining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Engagement and Policy Fellow.

During law school, Aasha was a student attorney in the Appellate Litigation Clinic and articles editor for the American Criminal Law Review. She also interned at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and Legal Aid DC.

Richard L. Trumka Jr., of counsel in Cohen Milstein’s Public Client practice, is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  Rich represents state attorneys general and other public-sector clients in investigations and lawsuits involving a wide range of claims including consumer protection, false claims, and fraudulent and deceptive trade practices.

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Rich was Commissioner of the CPSC since 2021 when he was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. During his tenure, Rich stood up for consumers and delivered results to make consumers safer from hidden hazards and corporate misconduct. He helped the Commission crack down on infant products that were putting babies’ lives at risk. He led efforts to speed up the safety benefits of CPSC’s life-saving rules. And he joined his colleagues in declaring Amazon accountable for recalls of hazardous products sold on its platform.   

Prior to joining the CPSC, Rich served as General Counsel & Staff Director of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, under the leadership of civil rights champion and then-Chairman Elijah E. Cummings.  During his tenure, he focused his consumer protection and public health work on protecting children, including from toxic heavy metals in baby foods, mis-marketed car booster seats, e-cigarettes, and carcinogens in consumer talc products. He also helped uncover wasteful government contracts leading to over $400 million in taxpayer savings. 

In his prior service as an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Rich prosecuted companies and their executives for violations of Maryland’s consumer protection laws.  He secured substantial judgments for Maryland consumers.  And he helped lead multistate data breach investigations affecting consumers nationwide.  

Rich began his career clerking for the Honorable Berle M. Schiller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  He then went into private practice, focusing on complex litigation. 

Alex Bodaken is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice, where he represents a broad range of individuals and businesses in civil litigation, with a focus on multi-district class actions and antitrust litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Alex was a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Stranch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, as well as the Honorable Gregory Woods of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Before his judicial clerkships, Alex was a litigation fellow at Americans United for the Separation of Church & State.

While attending Georgetown University Law Center, Alex was an executive editor of American Criminal Law Review.

Publications

  • Beating Qualified Immunity on Appeal, 57. 4, GULC, Amer. Criminal Law Rev. (2020)

Before pursuing a career in law, Alex was a fourth-grade schoolteacher at Holabird Academy in Baltimore, Maryland.

Steven J. Toll, co-chair of the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice, has built a distinguished career and reputation as a fierce advocate for the rights of shareholders and has guided the strategy and mediation efforts on the firm’s largest and most important matters — both securities fraud and other consumer cases. His skill and steadiness have earned the trust of mediators and the respect of defense counsel.  

Steve also serves as a model inside the law firm. For nearly three decades, Cohen Milstein prospered under his leadership as managing partner and a member of the executive committee.  

Steve has been lead or principal counsel on some of the most high-profile stock fraud lawsuits in the past 30 years, arguing important matters before the highest courts in the country. He was involved in settling some of the most important mortgage-backed securities (MBS) class-action lawsuits in the aftermath of the financial crisis, including: Countrywide Financial Corp., which settled for $500 million in 2013; Residential Accredited Loans Inc. (RALI), which settled for $335 million in 2014; Harborview MBS, which settled for $275 million, also in 2014; and Novastar MBS, which settled for $165 million in 2019. 

Most recently, Steve was involved in the landmark $1 billion settlement with Wells Fargo, ending a three-year securities fraud class action lawsuit brought on behalf of investors nationwide. The settlement is the 17th largest securities class action settlement of all time. 

Among Steve’s most important wins is the Harman class action suit, where he argued and won an important ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Circuit Court reinstated the suit against electronics maker Harman International Industries; the ruling is significant in that it places limits on the protection allowed by the safe harbor rule for forward-looking statements. A $28.25 million settlement was achieved in this action in 2017.   

Steve was co-lead counsel in the BP Securities class action securities fraud lawsuit that arose from the devastating Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the certification of the class of investors alleged to have been injured by BP’s misrepresentation of the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, and thus minimizing the extent of the cost and financial impact to BP of the clean-up and resulting damages. In 2017, the court granted final approval to a $175 million settlement reached between BP and lead plaintiffs for the “post-explosion” class.  

Steve was co-lead counsel in the consumer class action suit against Lumber Liquidators, a lawsuit that alleged the nationwide retailer sold Chinese-made laminate flooring containing hazardous levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde while falsely labeling their products as meeting or exceeding California emissions standards, a story that was profiled twice on 60 Minutes in 2015. In 2018, the court granted final approval of a settlement of $36 million between Lumber Liquidators and plaintiffs. 

Nathaniel Regenold is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice. He represents a broad range of individuals and businesses in civil litigation, with a focus on multi-district class actions and antitrust litigation. 

Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Nathaniel clerked for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for the Honorable Jane Kelly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Before that, he was a litigation associate at a highly regarded global law firm where he focused on antitrust and other civil litigation matters. 

During law school, Nathaniel was the vice president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, an executive editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Prior to law school, Nathaniel served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, where he taught high school math and science, and worked as a legal assistant with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in his home state of Arizona, providing legal assistance to detained adults facing threat of deportation. 

Nathaniel is proficient in Spanish. 

Agnieszka Fryszman, chair and founder of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein, is recognized as leading one of the best private international human rights practices in the world. 

Agnieszka has received some of the legal profession’s highest honors including the National Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year Award, the Human Trafficking Legal Center’s Human Trafficking Advocate of the Year Award, Appleseed’s Pillar of Justice award, and was named a “Legend” by Lawdragon. She was also named to Forbes Magazine 50 over 50 list as a changemaker who leaves the world better than she found it.

She represents individuals who have been victims of torture, human trafficking, forced and slave labor and other violations of international law. An expert and leader in the field of human rights law, Agnieszka regularly litigates cases against corporate giants and foreign powers.  She has a proven track record at all stages of litigation: she has led successful litigation teams, tried cases to verdict, obtained favorable settlements, and presented successful arguments at the courts of appeals.  

Her work includes: 

  • Holocaust-era atrocities: Agnieszka was a member of the legal team that successfully represented survivors of Nazi-era forced and slave labor against the German and Austrian companies that allegedly profited from their labor.  These cases were resolved by international negotiations that resulted in multi-billion-dollar settlements.  
  • Human Trafficking and Forced Labor: Agnieszka filed one of the first claims under the federal human trafficking statute (the TVPRA) and has continued to focus on representing survivors of human trafficking and forced labor.  She has represented workers trapped in supply chain forced labor as well as men and women trafficked by military contractors, in the fishing industry, and to work cleaning houses in Northern Virginia. 
  • Corporate Accountability: Agnieszka played a key role on the trial team that achieved a $38.3 million dollar verdict on behalf of eight men who were murdered by Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization. Plaintiffs had alleged that the deaths of their relatives were a direct and foreseeable result of Chiquita Brand International’s support of the AUC. After a six-week trial, a South Florida jury agreed. Agnieszka also led the litigation team that obtained a historic settlement from Exxon Mobil on behalf of eleven Indonesian villagers a week before trial was set to begin. The villagers alleged that ExxonMobil contracted to use soldiers to guard its operations and that those soldiers inflicted horrific abuses on the villagers and their families. On August 2, 2022, the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an 86-page opinion that largely denied ExxonMobil Corporation’s motion for summary judgment. In the ruling, the court found that most of ExxonMobil’s arguments were “entirely meritless.”
  • Military contractors:  Agnieszka earned the National Law Journal Pro Bono Award for her efforts on behalf of Nepali laborers killed at U.S. military bases in Iraq. She represented the families of twelve Nepali men and five additional surviving Nepali men who were lured to Jordan with the false promise of well-paying hotel jobs, but instead their passports were confiscated, they were imprisoned and taken against their will to a U.S. military base in Iraq, where they were put to work for U.S. military subcontractors during the Iraq war. Twelve of the men were killed by insurgents. The claims were ultimately resolved, including under innovative proceedings pursuant to the Defense Base Act. This case received international attention and is the focus of the book, The Girl from Kathmandu | Twelve Dead Men and a Woman’s Quest for Justice, by Cam Simpson (HarperCollins, 2018). 
  • Deep Sea Fishing Industry: Agnieszka filed and settled the first successfully resolved case of fishing boat slavery in the world. She represented two Indonesian men who escaped from a fishing boat when it docked in California. The settlement included provisions intended to protect future seamen, including a code of conduct for ship captains and a hand-out for seamen informing them of their rights and who to call for help. 
  • Comfort Women: Agnieszka’s work on behalf of former “comfort women,” women and girls trafficked into sexual slavery by the government of Japan during World War II, was recognized with the “Fierce Sister” award from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. 
  • Victims of 9/11: Agnieszka represented, pro bono, victims of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon and obtained one of the highest awards for an injured survivor from the Victim’s Compensation Fund.  
  • Guantanamo Bay Detention: Agnieszka represented, pro bono, two individuals detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay who were ultimately cleared without charge. 

For her pro bono work, she has been awarded the National Law Journal Pro Bono Award, the Beacon of Justice Award by the National Legal Aid and Defender and the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights.

Her alma mater, Georgetown Law, appointed Agnieszka the 2025-2026 Robert F. Drinan, S.J, Chair in Human Rights.