As Stroock Stroock & Lavan prepares to cease operations, Joel Cohen, a veteran defense attorney and Law Journal columnist who has been with the firm for nearly four decades, is moving on to Petrillo Klein & Boxer.
The announcement of Cohen’s move comes just after Stroock announced that—following a string of grim developments for the 147-year-old firm that has included botched merger talks and mass departures of talent—the firm is forming a wind-down committee to oversee a potential dissolution or restructuring.
