{"id":680,"date":"2024-08-30T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/?p=680"},"modified":"2024-09-06T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:14:39","slug":"duane-morris-attorneys-named-lawyers-of-the-year-for-construction-law-and-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2024\/08\/30\/duane-morris-attorneys-named-lawyers-of-the-year-for-construction-law-and-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane Morris Attorneys Named \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d for Construction Law and Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris partners <strong><a title=\"Read more about Frederick Cohen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/frederickcohen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Cohen<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Read more about Allen J. Ross\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/allenjross.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen J. Ross<\/a> <\/strong>have been recognized by <em>Best Lawyers<\/em>\u00ae as 2025 &#8220;Lawyers of the Year.&#8221; The recognition is given to only one attorney for each practice area and city. Lawyers are selected based on high marks received during peer-review assessments conducted by <em>Best Lawyers\u00a0<\/em>each year.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen has been selected as the \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d in New York City for Construction Law. He also received this distinction in 2018 and was named for Litigation &#8211; Construction in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ross has been selected as the &#8220;Lawyer of the Year&#8221; in New York City for Litigation \u2013 Construction. He also received this distinction in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With more than 35 years of experience in construction matters, Cohen\u2019s work includes resolving issues involving delays, defective performance and structural failures. He also has resolved many cases through alternative dispute resolution procedures. Cohen\u2019s practice focuses upon the representation of owner-developers, nonprofit institutions, contractors and sureties in both the private and public sectors. He has been recognized by\u00a0<em>Chambers USA: America\u2019s Leading Lawyers for Business<\/em>\u00a0as one of the leading construction attorneys in New York since 2008<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ross has more than 45 years of experience practicing law in the areas of construction,\u00a0<a title=\"Read more about litigation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/trial.html\">litigation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Read more about real estate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/practices\/realestate.html\">real estate<\/a>. In addition to traditional legal work, he has developed a career in alternative dispute resolution in the construction industry, serving as an arbitrator, mediator and dispute review board chair. Ross is a member of the American, New York State and New York City Bar Associations, as well as the Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators and the Panel of Mediators of the American Arbitration Association.\u00a0He has been recognized by\u00a0<em>Chambers USA: America\u2019s Leading Lawyers for Business<\/em>\u00a0as one of the leading construction attorneys in New York since 2008<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Best-Lawyers-1-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris partners Frederick Cohen and Allen J. Ross have been recognized by Best Lawyers\u00ae as 2025 &#8220;Lawyers of the Year.&#8221; The recognition is given to only one attorney for each practice area and city. Lawyers are selected based on high marks received during peer-review assessments conducted by Best Lawyers\u00a0each year. Cohen has been selected &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2024\/08\/30\/duane-morris-attorneys-named-lawyers-of-the-year-for-construction-law-and-litigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duane Morris Attorneys Named \u201cLawyers of the Year\u201d for Construction Law and Litigation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,9,147,801],"ppma_author":[696],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-allen-ross","tag-construction","tag-frederick-cohen","tag-lawyer-of-the-year"],"authors":[{"term_id":696,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}