Jason R. Bristol, Partner
Key Practice Areas:
Arbitration and Mediation; Civil Rights; Class and Collective Actions; Consumer Law; Employment Law; Wage and Hour
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Jason R. Bristol is an advocate for working people. He represents employees from the shop floor to the C-suite, and has recovered millions for his clients through negotiation and litigation. Law and Politics Magazine has described him as a “Super Lawyer” in plaintiffs’ employment litigation. Handling class and collective actions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and various state laws, he has recovered millions of dollars in unpaid wages and overtime compensation for workers across the United States. He also handles employment and civil rights cases involving illegal discrimination based upon age, gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, and pay inequity. In addition to his litigation practice, he routinely serves as a mediator in complex wage and hour disputes.
Joshua R. Cohen, Partner
Key Practice Areas:
Defamation; Employment Law (Civil Service); Fiduciary Duty; Fraud; Investments; Legal Malpractice; Securities Law
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Josh Cohen has a reputation for innovative, cutting-edge, and courageous litigation earned over more than 30 years of practice in complex civil and commercial litigation. His clients have included investors, employees, consumers, receivers, municipalities, and bankruptcy trustees in disputes ranging from legal malpractice to investment fraud, public nuisance to corporate and trust disputes.
Josh began his career at a mid-sized regional firm, where he devoted much of his practice to representation of one of the nation’s largest investment brokerage firms. Josh sat first-chair in three jury trials for this client, winning each of them. He also represented the firm in securities industry arbitrations, successfully defending it from a number of multi-million-dollar claims.
Ellen M. Kramer, Partner
Key Practice Areas:
Access to Justice; Contract Law; Consumer Rights; Fiduciary Duty; Fraud; Legal Malpractice
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Ellen Maglicic Kramer is a founding member of Cohen Rosenthal & Kramer LLP. After law school, Ellen served as a law clerk for United States Bankruptcy Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., who now serves as Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Ellen’s practice focuses on sophisticated corporate and commercial disputes. She has represented consumers, shareholders, debtors, creditors, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, public school districts, limited liability companies, employees and victims of legal malpractice.
James B. Rosenthal, Partner
Key Practice Areas:
Arbitration; Contract Law; Corporate Disputes; Family Business; Disputes; Fiduciary Duty; Fraud; Insurance Coverage; Securities Law
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Jim Rosenthal is an experienced and effective commercial litigator and a SuperLawyer®. He has developed a reputation for creative analysis, independent judgment and strategic thinking. He is known for decisive and energetic written and oral advocacy from the conference room to the courtroom. Jim has won significant victories for clients in federal and state courts and in binding arbitration. He has handled cases for investors, shareholders, entrepreneurs, athletes, physicians and other professionals, financial institutions and other businesses in disputes where the outcome is measured in dollars, but the stakes just as often involve a career, a reputation, a critical business relationship, or an individual or entity’s future.
Marrissa S. Murph, Paralegal and Practice Manager
(216) 815-9500
office@crklaw.com
Marrissa S. Murph joined Cohen, Rosenthal & Kramer as the Paralegal and Practice Manager in the summer of 2021. She brings with her nearly a decade of experience as a Paralegal working with in-house counsel at the corporate level. In her role, Marrissa wears many hats including supporting the firm in its daily operations and managing various tasks during the legal process for the firm’s clients.
In addition to her legal experience, Marrissa has an immeasurable amount of time working with the community through her work as a child social worker and a soup kitchen volunteer. Her community involvement extends to serving as an Advisory Board Member to Project NICU, whose mission of supporting those touched by the NICU is near and dear to her heart.
Marrissa graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Baldwin-Wallace University (formerly Baldwin-Wallace College) and earned a post-degree certificate in Paralegal Studies from Cuyahoga Community College.