AUSTIN - Effective May 1 Jonathan Cohn joins the national litigation boutique Lehotsky Keller Cohn. Steve Lehotsky and Scott Keller initially founded the firm in February 2021, growing from a two-lawyer firm to twenty lawyers as of May 1, a press release states.
Jon joins the firm from Sidley Austin, where he has been a partner in the Washington, D.C. office since 2009.
“When we started our litigation boutique in February 2021, neither of us dreamed that—barely over two years into the firm’s history—we would have twenty lawyers and be in a position to join forces with a lawyer of Jon’s caliber and experience,” said Steve Lehotsky and Scott Keller.
"I could not be happier about joining my good friends and their remarkable team," Jon stated. "In just two years, Steve and Scott have built a thriving litigation juggernaut that has grown exponentially, represented dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and handled some of the most significant cases in our nation's courts."
Jon will be the sixth lawyer at the firm to have clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court. All of the firm’s attorneys have clerked, including clerkships for appellate and trial judges.
Jon also adds to the firm’s depth of government experience. Jon was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Appellate at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) during President George W. Bush's Administration. In addition, the firm boasts three former State Solicitors General, six other attorneys with state attorney general experience, and three former DOJ lawyers.
Jon further builds upon the firm’s experience as a premier litigation boutique representing clients in trial, appellate, enforcement, regulatory, and strategic counseling matters nationwide. “Jon has led high-stakes class action, commercial, and regulatory litigation matters in trial courts for numerous Fortune 500 companies,” said Steve Lehotsky. “He has argued in the U.S. Supreme Court and has dozens of appellate arguments in eleven different federal circuit courts of appeals, as well as state appellate courts,” noted Scott Keller.