Serena Jarwala 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 law school, Serena was a staff editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and a citation checker for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She was also the Vice President for Legal Research & Writing on the Harvard Board of Student Advisers, where she helped oversee the school’s teaching assistant training program and improve the school’s overarching research and writing curriculum.
Serena also participated in Cohen Milstein’s summer associate program. Prior to entering law school, Serena worked for the National Women’s Law Center.
Emily Marcus is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice, where she 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, Emily was a law clerk to the Honorable Louis L. Stanton of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
While attending Harvard Law School, Emily was an article editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. She was also the president of the Alliance for Reproductive Justice.
Before law school, Emily was a consultant at a global management consulting firm.
Ethan Judd is a fellow in Cohen Milstein’s Fellowship Program. In this role, he works on litigation matters in the firm’s public client practice group.
While attending Harvard Law School, Ethan was the lead outside article editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He also participated in several intern and externships, including with the United States Department of Justice: Civil Rights Division and Protect Democracy.
Mary Brown is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice, where she 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, Mary was a law clerk for the Honorable Pamela Harris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Before her judicial clerkship, Mary was a legal fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
While attending Harvard Law School, Mary was the articles, book reviews and commentaries chair of the Harvard Law Review.
Publications
- Recent Case, Williams v. Medley Opportunity Fund II, LP, 134 HARV. L. REV. 2582 (2021)
Jared Dummitt is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice. Jared 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, Jared was an associate for an internationally renowned litigation law firm, handling both defense and plaintiff-side matters involving class actions, antitrust, intellectual property, and appeals, as well as employment discrimination.
Before entering private practice, Jared clerked for the Honorable Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Prior to law school, Jared worked as a legal analyst at a highly regarded global disputes and Investigations law firm.
Ryan Wheeler is an associate at Cohen Milstein and a member of the Employee Benefits practice. He represents the interests of employees, retirees, plan participants and beneficiaries in ERISA cases across the country.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Ryan was a Fellow in the firm’s Fellowship program, where he worked on litigation matters spanning the firm’s antitrust, consumer protection, civil rights and employment litigation, human rights, and securities litigation practices.
Before that, Ryan clerked for the Honorable Michael H. Simon of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
In law school, Ryan was the solicited content editor for Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, a founding member of the Pipeline Parity Project (now known as the People’s Parity Project), and the co-president of Project No One Leaves.
Laura H. Posner, a partner in the Securities Litigation & Investor Protection practice, has recovered billions on behalf of defrauded investors. Her cases include 6 of the top 100 securities fraud class action settlements of all time, including In re Wells Fargo, the 17th largest securities fraud recovery for investors ever. Laura has also been instrumental in successfully resolving for hundreds of millions of dollars and sweeping governance changes, groundbreaking derivative actions arising out of allegations of sexual misconduct and race discrimination, including obtaining the first ever, and to date only, demand futility decision in such a case.
Laura is also a partner in the firm’s Ethics & Fiduciary Counseling practice, where she works closely with public pension plan trustees and administrators across the country to navigate changing economic conditions and organizational challenges and advises on governance matters and management of investment portfolios.
Prior to joining the firm, Laura was appointed by the New Jersey Attorney General to serve as the Bureau Chief for the New Jersey Bureau of Securities – the top securities regulator in New Jersey. In that capacity, she was responsible for administrating and enforcing the New Jersey Uniform Securities Law and regulations thereunder, as well as managing and overseeing the employees who staff the Bureau of Securities. Cases prosecuted under Laura’s direction as Bureau Chief resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for New Jersey residents and more than 20 criminal convictions.
Outside of the firm, Laura is a thought leader on investor protection issues, helming the Institute for Law & Economic Policy, a public policy research and educational foundation focused on the development of securities law and investor and consumer access to the civil justice system, drafting numerous successful amici briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts across the country, and serving on the Public Policy Council of the CFP Board.
Madelyn Petersen’s practice focuses on litigating class actions on behalf of consumers who have been misled, deceived or harmed by large corporations.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Madelyn was a law fellow at the firm. In this role, she worked across practices and was involved in litigating individual and class action cases at the district and appellate levels. She was also a law clerk to the Honorable William Dimitrouleas of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
While at Harvard Law School, Madelyn was the managing editor of Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and online content editor for Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. While in law school, she was also a board member of the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and participated in Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. She was also a legal intern for the Corporate Accountability Lab, the Advancement Project, and Oxfam America.
Michael B. Eisenkraft leads Cohen Milstein’s efforts in prosecuting innovative cases relating to the protection of financial markets and investors as well as representing firms harmed by anticompetitive conduct and involved in business-to-business litigation.
He serves in both the Antitrust and Securities practices of the firm, is the administrative partner of the firm’s New York office, chair of the New Business Development Committee, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Michael currently represents investors asserting antitrust or securities class action claims in the Stock Lending, Interest Rate Swaps, XIV ETN, and Block, Inc. cases. He also represents, in antitrust class litigation, farmers against pesticide companies, casinos against the manufacturer of automatic card shufflers, self-funded payors in litigation against a major hospital system, and app developers against Apple. In addition to recently securing $580 million in settlements in the Stock Lending litigation, Michael helped investors recover hundreds of millions of dollars in the firm’s mortgage-backed securities cases.
Michelle Yau, chair of Cohen Milstein’s Employee Benefits/ERISA practice, has spearheaded some of the most significant ERISA class actions in the nation. She combines ardent dedication to protecting her clients’ retirement assets with rare insight into complex financial transactions and actuarial issues, informed by her Wall Street and government experience. Recently Michelle was named among the “Elite Women of the Trial Bar” by The National Law Journal. Since 2022, Chambers USA has named Michelle a top ranked attorney in ERISA litigation and in 2021, she was named a Law360 Benefits MVP.
Michelle is passionate about righting economic injustice and protecting pension plan participants. She has a unique background having served as an Honors Program Attorney at the Department of Labor where she enforced and administered a variety of labor statutes and working as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group of the Investment Banking Division. This experience has allowed Michelle to play an instrumental role in important financial litigation, including high-profile ERISA lawsuits emerging from the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Michelle is a senior editor of the ERISA treatise published by Bloomberg BNA, Employee Benefits Law, and a member of the Benefits Editorial Advisory Board for Law360.
At Harvard Law School, Michelle was awarded several public interest fellowships, including the Heyman Fellowship for academic excellence and a demonstrated commitment to federal public service. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, she was selected as an Echols Scholar and awarded the Student Council Scholarship for leadership, academic achievement, and community service.