Since joining the Berger firm in 1991, Bart Cohen has represented plaintiffs in complex antitrust litigation, including In re Infant Formula Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Fla. 1993), In re Carbon Dioxide Antitrust Litigation (M.D. Fla. 1996), Callahan v. A.E.V., Inc., 182 F.3d 237 (3rd Cir. 1999) (reversing dismissal of antitrust claims of several small beer distributors), Masters v. Wilhelmina Model Agency, Inc., 473 F.3d 423 (2d Cir. 2007) (authorizing award of treble damages to settling class members), and Lactona Corp. v. Dentsply Int’l, Inc. (M.D. Pa. 2010).   

Mr. Cohen maintains significant responsibility for representing a proposed nationwide class of ATM customers in antitrust litigation against a leading ATM network and several of the nation’s largest banks, In re ATM Fee Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.), a proposed nationwide class of merchants in antitrust litigation against the two leading credit card networks and the major banks that support them,  In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.), and a proposed class action involving the monopolization of the market for photochromic eyeglass lenses.  Nouveau Vision, Inc. v. Transitions Optical, Inc. (W.D. Wash.).  Mr. Cohen is also one of a handful of attorneys who are representing on a pro bono basis the interests of a large group of parents in a case involving his children’s school district’s use of webcams to photograph high school students in their homes.  Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (E.D. Pa.).

Mr. Cohen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 with two degrees, from the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science. After working as a software developer, he graduated in 1989 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of the American Criminal Law Review, and authored a section on computer crime in White Collar Crime: Survey of Law – 1988 Update, 25 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 359, 367 (1988).  The 2009 and 2010 versions of The Legal 500 identified Mr. Cohen as “a very strong litigator,” and Mr. Cohen has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers in four of the last five years.  He has also received the highest peer-review rating (AV) in Martindale-Hubbell.  He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Competition Law360, a daily newsletter serving antitrust practitioners nationwide.  He is also a member of the American Bar Association, and its Sections of Antitrust and Litigation.  Mr. Cohen is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.