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Lucile H. Cohen

Partner

Meridian
1320 Main Street
17th Floor
Columbia, SC 29201
lucie.cohen@nelsonmullins.com

Lucie Cohen is a partner who serves as discovery counsel to clients in complex litigation matters and government investigations, developing discovery response strategies, negotiating ESI protocols and other discovery orders, and advocating on behalf of clients regarding scope of discovery, burden issues, and culling and search methodologies. Her clients often face interrelated litigation and government...

Lucie Cohen is a partner who serves as discovery counsel to clients in complex litigation matters and government investigations, developing discovery response strategies, negotiating ESI protocols and other discovery orders, and advocating on behalf of clients regarding scope of discovery, burden issues, and culling and search methodologies. Her clients often face interrelated litigation and government inquiries in antitrust, data breach, and other contexts, and she works closely with clients to coordinate discovery strategy and operations across matters. For many clients, she serves as enterprise e-discovery counsel and coordinates consistent approaches across the client’s litigation matters and investigations. She also counsels clients on information management and data governance strategies, policies, and practices, including records management efforts and defensible disposition of aged data.

inquiries in antitrust, data breach, and other contexts, and she works closely with clients to coordinate discovery strategy and operations across matters. For many clients, she serves as enterprise e-discovery counsel and coordinates consistent approaches across the client’s litigation matters and investigations. She also counsels clients on information management and data governance strategies, policies, and practices, including records management efforts and defensible disposition of aged data.

Lucie Cohen is a partner who serves as discovery counsel to clients in complex litigation matters and government investigations, developing discovery response strategies, negotiating ESI protocols and other discovery orders, and advocating on behalf of clients regarding scope of discovery, burden issues, and culling and search methodologies. Her clients often face interrelated litigation and government... inquiries in antitrust, data breach, and other contexts, and she works closely with clients to coordinate discovery strategy and operations across matters. For many clients, she serves as enterprise e-discovery counsel and coordinates consistent approaches across the client’s litigation matters and investigations. She also counsels clients on information management and data governance strategies, policies, and practices, including records management efforts and defensible disposition of aged data.

Experience

Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

  • Regularly advises clients on defensible approaches to the preservation, collection, and production of electronically stored information and helps develop strategies for clients to address electronic discovery challenges in litigation
  • Routinely coordinates and manages large-scale discovery projects for productions in litigation and government investigations
  • Assists clients on information lifecycle issues, including establishing frameworks to defensibly dispose of data when it is no longer needed for business or legal purposes

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, cum laude (2007)
    • John Belton O'Neall Inn of Court
    • Order of Wig and Robe
    • Editor in Chief, ABA's Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal
  • College of Charleston, MS, Environmental Studies (2002)
  • Loyola University New Orleans, BS, Biology, Minors in Chemistry and History (1999)

Admissions

  • South Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
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  • Sedona Conference
  • ARMA International
  • DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar
  • American Bar Association
  • South Carolina Bar
  • South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
  • South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association
  • Richland County Bar Association
  • Drafting wills for first responders in Nelson Mullins’ Wills for Heroes program
  • Working with high school students through Street Law
  • Board Member, Columbia Stage Company in support of Columbia’s historic Town Theatre