Cohen spent 15 years with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he was a counsel in the Complex Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Committee. He specializes in electronic discovery and litigation readiness planning, and has extensive experience assisting corporations in the technology, consumer products, pharmaceutical, medical device, insurance and financial services sectors in preparing for and responding to discovery demands in litigation and regulatory matters and in managing discovery in complex litigation and regulatory matters.

Cohen is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, a co-author of the Working Group’s RFP+ White Paper and a contributing editor of its Glossary. He is also a faculty member and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Georgetown University Law Center Continuing Legal Education Electronic Discovery program. In addition, he is a frequent lecturer and has written numerous articles on electronic discovery. He earned a JD from the Fordham School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

“The addition of Matt Cohen to our team means that AlixPartners is even more strongly positioned to support its clients with highly credentialed professionals who have real world Electronic Discovery and Litigation Readiness consulting experience. This expertise is particularly important to the firm’s clients in light of the pending amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which are slated to become effective on December 1, 2006. These amendments will require litigants to proactively identify potentially relevant electronically stored information and to confer with their opponents regarding their preservation efforts and information storage systems” said Meade Monger, managing director at AlixPartners.

The firm is opening a Data Center, representing a substantial investment in a state-of-the-art facility and cutting-edge hardware and software to support its data analytics and settlement administration services and to assist clients in meeting the new challenges posed by electronic discovery. The Data Center will provide AlixPartners’ clients with multiple options and functionalities to ensure high-quality, cost-efficient solutions tailored to the needs of each individual case.

“AlixPartners continues to be at the forefront of the litigation technology revolution,” added Monger. “We have long been using our expertise in technology, finance, accounting, litigation, and our unique ability to analyze and distil massive amounts of data to help clients solve complex problems. With the Data Center, we will continue to use these skills to facilitate all aspects of electronic discovery, data analytics and class action settlement administration, but will be able do so more effectively and efficiently for our clients.”

About AlixPartners
AlixPartners LLC is a global performance improvement, corporate turnaround and financial advisory services firm. The AlixPartners’ “one-stop-shop” suite of services range from operational performance improvement and financial restructuring across all major corporate disciplines (manufacturing, supply chain, IT, sales and marketing, etc.), to financial advisory services (including financial reporting, corporate governance and investigations) to technology-enabled restructuring and claims management. Headquartered in metropolitan Southfield, Michigan, the firm has more than 500 employees, and has offices in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Tokyo. It is on the Web at www.alixpartners.com.