Faye Cohen | Estate Planning

Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen, P.C.

Faye Cohen | Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen, P.C.

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For more than four decades, Faye Riva Cohen has provided personalized, creative, and zealous legal representation to clients in the areas of Employment and Labor Law, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Estate Planning and Litigation, Real Estate, and Family Law. She enjoys a well-earned reputation for successfully litigating multi-faceted, complex cases against large and powerful adversaries, often in David and Goliath situations.

Faye founded the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen—one of the original woman-owned law firms in Philadelphia—with the mission of providing sophisticated, comprehensive counseling to individuals and businesses. Her diverse experience in multiple legal practice areas enables her to recognize and address all aspects of a legal matter.

Throughout her storied career, Faye has:

• Achieved justice and financial security for workers wrongfully terminated due to discrimination and retaliation
• Won hard-fought battles that created legal precedent and advanced anti-discrimination and civil rights laws
• Protected the rights of disabled individuals in the workforce before administrative agencies and in the courts
• Successfully counseled small businesses on intricate issues relating to formation, real estate, contracts, employment, and many other complexities
• Secured favorable resolutions in high-asset divorce cases
• Favorably resolved many significant legal matters that threatened a client’s financial security, stability, and peace of mind

Faye also is a frequent local and national lecturer on civil rights and discrimination matters. She has written, both as a primary and contributing author, approximately 140 legal articles published in prestigious publications and is the author of the influential Tough Lawyer Lady blog.