Established in 1991, Earp Cohn is a law firm that represents publicly held companies, municipalities, charitable and nonprofit organizations, and banks and lending institutions in a range of practice areas. The firm specializes in the areas of business, commercial, real estate and criminal law. It handles issues related to insurance coverage, personal injury, land use, and estate planning and administration. Earp Cohn represents the victims of sexual harassment and race, sex, age, religion and disability discrimination. The firm assists clients in various workers compensation issues, including wrongful termination, wage-hour administration and breach of contract. In addition, it assists clients in matters regarding bankruptcy, fraud, theft, commercial litigation, and probate and estate administration. The firm supports charitable institutions and health and welfare organizations, such as the American Red Cross and American Cancer Society. Earp Cohn maintains locations in Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, N.J.
Kathy also has extensive experience in elder law, assisting with the Medicaid process, preparing Petitions for Guardianship, and participating in competency hearings. She has often served as Court-appointed counsel in such matters as reviewing Special Needs Trusts, representing minor beneficiaries, or administering estates.
Dan also represents clients for traffic violations, including DUI/DWI. Dan is a founding member of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys (AAPDA), an organization dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of advocacy through education, training, and professionalism.
Wrongful Death
Traffic Violations
Fraud
Carol Harding maintains a broad-based litigation practice in which she has represented businesses, public entities, and individuals at both the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts. Her experience includes complex commercial disputes, employment law, defense of claims against public entities, disability income insurance law, environmental litigation, trust and estate litigation, and consumer fraud actions. Ms. Harding also serves as an arbitrator in employment law matters.
Merritt Cole represents clients in securities and corporate matters, including transactional matters, SEC reporting and compliance and corporate governance.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Merritt Cole is Chair of the Securities Law Practice Group and Counsel at Earp Cohn P.C., which he joined in 2014. He has extensive experience in securities and corporate law matters, including transactional matters (public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and control contests), SEC reporting and compliance, corporate governance and business counseling. Mr. Cole has represented a broad range of business clients, ranging from development-stage companies to publicly-held companies and financial institutions, including broker-dealers, investment advisors and banks.
Business Disputes
Mr. Cole has held additional senior leadership positions in many professional organizations. He has served as Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and for many years served on the Executive Committee of the Section. Mr. Cole also served as Chair of the Securities Regulation Committee of the Business Law Section. He served as a member of the Attorney Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Securities Commission (until merged as the PA Department of Banking and Securities). Mr. Cole has taught Securities Regulation courses in three law schools and has taught Advanced Corporate Practice at Rutgers School of Law and Advanced Topics in Securities Regulation at Temple University School of Law.
Business Transactions
Marty Lisman assists corporate and individual clients in complex matters for real estate, commercial business transactions, and litigation. Read More
Through his more than twenty-five (25) years in practice, Dan has litigated cases from a wide range of practice areas. His litigation experience includes all manner of personal injury cases, commercial disputes, contracts, estate and will contests, civil fraud, real estate litigation, and employment discrimination on behalf of clients in both the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dan has tried many cases to verdict in fourteen counties surrounding Philadelphia and Camden, on both sides of the Delaware River.
Employment Contract
She works with her clients on the day-to-day operations of their business from protecting intellectual property, reviewing and drafting all types of contracts including vendor and employment agreements, and reviewing advertising content for regulatory compliance.
Employment Litigation
Dan focuses his practice on obtaining justice for individuals and their families who have been harmed in automobile accidents, trucking and tractor-trailer accidents, premises liability (slip and fall cases), medical negligence, municipal tort liability, nursing home negligence, elder abuse, employment litigation, and wrongful death litigation.
Mr. Nogowski has been successfully representing small and mid-market entrepreneurs in complex business, financial and real estate matters for many years. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Nogowski’s professional experience included more than ten years of service as CEO, COO and/or CFO of entrepreneurial companies in the real estate development, technology, manufacturing and food service sectors. Don understands your struggles – he has stood in your shoes growing a successful business. Don has also provided strategic counsel for many years to struggling businesses, where bankruptcy, strategic reorganization and/or work-out is the key to survival.
Premises Liability
Construction Litigation
Complex litigation involving corporate and LLC control and business divorces, consumer protection statutes, business torts, construction defects, and commercial disputes
Real Estate Transactions
Rich Cohn is a founding shareholder of Earp Cohn, which he and partner Tom Earp formed in 1991 after many years of large firm experience. Rich’s practice focuses on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including commercial acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings, shopping centers, hotels and commercial, industrial and manufacturing facilities; acquisition and assembly of land; office, retail and industrial leasing; zoning, land use planning and urban redevelopment; formation and organization of real estate ownership and development entities; and real estate financing transactions.
Land Use and Zoning
Allen Etish brings a street smart business approach to issues confronting small to medium sized businesses, including litigation and transactions involving real estate and zoning. Read More
From 2011 through 2020, Anthony Giosa was chosen as a Super Lawyer, as seen in Philadelphia Magazine. Being chosen as a Super Lawyer represents recognition by his peers of his professional achievements and expertise in the area of personal injury law. Less than 5% of attorneys in the country are awarded this honor. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization that, by invitation only, recognizes excellence in advocacy for those attorneys who have achieved superior results and seven (7) figure settlements or verdicts on behalf of their clients. He has a rating of “Excellent” with the lawyer rating service Avvo. Mr. Giosa has also been named to the list of Top 100 Trial Lawyers of Pennsylvania by the National Trial Lawyers Association.
Medical Malpractice
Anthony J. Giosa is the former founding and managing partner of Giosa & Hetznecker, P.C. Mr. Giosa has been practicing for thirty-eight (38) years with a focus that has always been on accident victims, patients who have been subject to medical and hospital negligence, and families who have lost loved ones due to the negligence of others. His practice areas include catastrophic personal injury; automobile, motorcycle and trucking accidents; medical malpractice; premises and construction accidents; wrongful death matters; products liability; legal malpractice; and municipal liability.
Medicaid Planning
Mr. Nogowski has successfully represented families for many years struggling with the responsibility for planning and caring for an elderly or disabled loved one. Mr. Nogowski advocates “life care planning”, which means taking a holistic approach to long-term care planning, disability planning and Medicaid planning matters, with an emphasis on “aging in place” as long as possible. We can help your family utilize available home and community-based services, home adaptations and technology to defer or possibly even eliminate the need to enter a nursing home.
Richard M. Schlaifer has over 32 years of experience in diverse areas of practice with an emphasis on general business representation, real estate, estate planning, estate litigation, commercial litigation, bankruptcy and family law. He has both major firm experience and smaller firm experience, enabling him to represent both large corporate clients as well as smaller business clientele in a wide variety of matters. Mr. Schlaifer’s representation of individuals and small businesses is bolstered by an LL.M. in Taxation.
Wills
Trusts
Kathy assists clients with their estate and long-term care planning and guides fiduciaries in the administration of trusts and estates. She focuses primarily on estate matters, helping clients to develop effective plans to meet their estate and long-term care goals, and assisting trustees, executors and estate administrators in navigating the probate process and preparing all necessary Surrogate Court submissions and tax returns.
Richard Schlaifer handles complex business, estate and personal matters with a well- rounded background, particularly in the areas of estate, family and commercial bankruptcy law.
Tax Law
Mr. Koffler’s areas of expertise include income and corporate tax planning, retirement plans and employee benefits, estate planning and administration, charitable trusts and foundations, formation, acquisition and sale of business entities, and shareholder agreements and succession planning.