Calvin Cohen Counsel

Calvin Cohen is an experienced litigator who maintains a national regulatory enforcement and privacy practice.

Calvin represents companies in governmental investigations regarding consumer privacy, data security, biometrics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), financial privacy, children’s and teen’s data, health information, and online advertising practices. He also assists with incident response and data breach notifications to regulators. He has represented multiple technology clients before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the California, Massachusetts, and New York attorneys general, and the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Calvin also counsels on compliance with governmental orders, including supporting clients throughout mandated external auditor assessments and replying to follow-on regulator requests.

As counsel in privacy disputes, Calvin has defended social media providers, technology companies, and national businesses in litigation and class action lawsuits. These include matters involving terms of use, the arbitrability of claims, contractual issues, consumer protection, common law privacy claims, products liability claims, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and unlawful content moderation claims. He also defends clients under the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Calvin represents service providers in responding to requests for online user data under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Stored Communications Act (SCA), and state equivalents.

Calvin advises clients on privacy and data compliance under the above-enumerated laws and regulations, along with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He counsels clients on genetic privacy compliance under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA). Calvin also regularly provides product counseling to technology companies.

In his active pro bono practice, Calvin represents individuals seeking asylum, and serves as guardian ad litem (GAL) in Illinois’ Cook County Circuit Court. He also represents an Indiana municipality suing multiple gun manufacturers for nuisance. While at his prior firm, Calvin was seconded with Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP), where he handled family law matters and routinely appeared in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.