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Brent A. Cossrow

Regional Managing Partner


Philadelphia

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Service Focus

  • eDiscovery and Digital Workplace
  • Employee Defection and Trade Secrets
  • Litigation and Trials
  • Counseling and Advice
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Overview

Brent Cossrow is the Regional Managing Partner of the Philadelphia Office. Brent’s practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling and the use of computers, the Internet, smart phone applications, electronic mail and communications and other electronically stored information in the American workplace. Brent has litigated and obtained victories in cases involving employment contract claims, business torts, trade secret misappropriation, computer fraud and evidence destruction and manipulation.

Brent is a member of the firm’s Employee Defection and Trade Secrets practice group and a founding member of the eDiscovery and Digital Workplace practice group. Also, he is the Chair Emeritus of Fisher Phillips’ eDiscovery Committee, in which capacity he managed the firm’s national eDiscovery attorneys and personnel. As a part of his nationwide practice, Brent has prosecuted and defended matters in which forensics and eDiscovery have helped clients to obtain positive results in a range of consequential employment cases across the firm’s practice groups.

Brent is a frequent speaker and lecturer on legal issues that arise in the electronic workplace, and he has been a regular faculty member on this topic at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Employment Law Institute.

Brent is an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated Attorney Martindale-Hubbell®.

Credentials

Education

  • J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  • B.A., Middlebury College

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Affiliations

Professional Activities

  • Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Employment Law Institute - Board Member and Faculty (2018-2023)

Community Activities

  • Chairman and Director, The Reading Terminal Market Corporation (2022-present)
  • Vice Chairman and Director, The Reading Terminal Market Corporation (2012-2022)
  • General Counsel, The Reading Terminal Market Merchants' Association (2007-2009)

Insights

  • News

    12/30/22

    Brent Cossrow Elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Reading Terminal Market Corporation

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  • Podcasts

    02/03/22

    The Post-Van Buren Workplace and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Part III

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • Podcasts

    12/08/21

    The Stengart Fact Pattern and Expectations of Digital Privacy

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton, Risa B. Boerner

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  • Podcasts

    11/01/21

    Big Data, Analytics and the Workplace, Part III

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • Event

    9/23/21 and 9/28/21

    “New Normal” Approaches to Employee Mobility, Information Safeguards and Competitive Advantage in the Post-Pandemic World

    Michael P. Elkon, Risa B. Boerner, Christopher P. Stief, David W. Erb, Robert Yonowitz, Brent A. Cossrow, Wendy Hughes, James Michael Honeycutt, Pavneet Singh Uppal, Michael R. Greco, Susan M. Guerette, Usama Kahf, Anthony Isola, John W. Stapleton, Corey J. Goerdt

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  • Podcasts

    09/14/21

    Big Data, Analytics and the Workplace, Part II

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • Podcasts

    08/19/21

    Big Data, Analytics and the Workplace, Part I

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • Podcasts

    08/02/21

    The Post-Van Buren Workplace and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Part II

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • News

    07/27/21

    CBS News Cites Fisher Phillips Podcast on Biden’s Efforts to Curtail Non-Compete Clauses

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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  • Podcasts

    07/26/21

    The Post-Van Buren Workplace and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Part I

    Brent A. Cossrow, David J. Walton

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