Dechert Leader Cohen Follows ‘Upstairs’ Mentor to New Challenge

Vincent Cohen Jr. will take on a new challenge as a Dechert global managing partner later this year while juggling his work as a white collar litigator for corporate giants including Microsoft Corp.

The ascendancy brings a special significance for Cohen because of his efforts to boost the ranks of Black and other diverse lawyers at Dechert and throughout Big Law. He’s building on a family legacy as the son of the trail-blazing D.C. lawyer Vincent H. Cohen, a trial attorney with Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department who later became the first Black partner with Hogan & Hartson.

“He was the ...