Mr. Cohen, of Brooklyn, New York, joined the firm in 2003 and became partner in September of 2004. He graduated with top honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a B.A. in Political Science. In 1984, he received his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Mr. Cohen is admitted to practice in Virginia, Washington, D.C., the state and federal courts in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Peter Cohen possesses over twenty years of experience handling a variety of litigation matters, including employment discrimination, ERISA and labor law litigation, financial institutions litigation, pension and health care litigation, and criminal defense litigation. For several years he managed his own practice in Rockville, Maryland, where he represented plaintiffs in litigation of a wide variety of employment discrimination matters in the state and federal courts of the District of Columbia and Maryland. During this time Mr. Cohen tried cases through jury trials and appeals cases addressing D.C. Human Rights laws, Title VII, the ADA, and other federal and state statutes.

Mr. Cohen has also litigated claims on behalf of retirees seeking pension plan benefits, employees of the Federal Government to recover overtime compensation, and labor unions, claims seeking to recover the savings of people who lost their money as a result of the savings and loan scandal, he represented beneficiaries and fiduciaries of retirement and health care plans in private class action lawsuits and enforcement actions by the Department of Labor, and Mr. Cohen has represented the interests of indigent criminal defendants, including death row inmates, before appellate courts, testified often before Congress, and authored many articles of interest to the public defender community.

Since joining Charlson Bredehoft & Cohen, Mr. Cohen has served as lead counsel in multiple employment cases involving discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and other employment torts. Mr. Cohen also leads the firm's appellate practice. In addition, Mr. Cohen has provided advice to a significant number of clients relating to severance packages, employment agreements, covenants not to compete, change in control provisions, and other business and employment-related advice. Mr. Cohen recently successfully represented a widow of a 9-11 victim, in a pro bono capacity, for claims made to the fund established by Congress.

Mr. Cohen is a member of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association and the National Employment Lawyers Association.