Keith Y. Cohan

Keith Y. Cohan is a partner in the Austin, Texas, office of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, where his practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including cases involving financial fraud, professional negligence, fiduciary liability and other business torts. He has litigated cases before state and federal courts and arbitration tribunals across the country. Mr. Cohan devotes much of his practice to pursuing legal malpractice and related claims arising in both transactional and litigation contexts. He has pursued numerous claims against AmLaw 100 firms involving a wide range of alleged misconduct that includes providing conflicted legal advice, failing to file a client’s nine-figure claims within the statute of limitations, mismanaging internal investigations, misreporting information to governmental bodies, failing to report fraud and illegal conduct to a company’s board of directors, and aiding and abetting corporate misconduct. He is also committed to social justice and has partnered with the ACLU of Louisiana inits Justice Lab project to combat discriminatory policing. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Cohan worked as a litigation associate at the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and served as the first judicial law clerk to Hon. Gregg J. Costa of the U.S. District Court for the SouthernDistrict of Texas. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas LawReview and co-head of the mentor program for first-year law students. He also was named a member ofChancellors, the Law School’s most prestigious honor society, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.