Theodore J. Leopold

Theodore J. Leopold is a Partner at Cohen Milstein and Co-Chair of the firm’s Complex Tort Litigation and Consumer Protection practice groups. Mr. Leopold is also an immediate past member of the firm’s Executive Committee, a role he held from 2015 – 2020.

Mr. Leopold’s practice is devoted solely to trial work, with a focus on complex product liability, environmental toxic torts, managed care abuse, consumer class actions, and catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation. Mr. Leopold has tried cases throughout the country and has recovered multi-million-dollar verdicts, including jury verdicts in the eight-figure and nine-figure amounts.

In his role, Mr. Leopold litigates high-stakes, complex lawsuits on behalf of consumer safety issues, particularly as it relates to product defects, automobile safety, and managed care matters. In 2010, he obtained a $131 million jury verdict against the Ford Motor Company, the ninth-largest verdict against an automobile company in U.S. history.