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Aaron Krauss, Member akrauss@cozen.com |
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Office: Phone: (215) 665-4181 Toll Free: (800) 523-2900 Fax: (215) 701-2381 |
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Mailing Address:
1900 Market StreetPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
United States
Aaron Krauss practices in the Commercial Litigation Group in the Philadelphia office. He concentrates his practice on business litigation, labor and employment litigation and intellectual property litigation.
Aaron has represented:
- Companies and directors in cases involving business torts, such as RICO, tortious interference, fraud, negligent and intentional misrepresentations, fraudulent transfers, and shareholder oppression and dissolution, with amounts in controversy ranging from millions to hundreds of millions of dollars;
- Accounting firms and companies in auditor malpractice cases with amounts in controversy ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars;
- Companies in breach of contract and breach of representations and warranties cases with amounts in controversy ranging from millions to tens of millions of dollars;
- Companies and executives in noncompete, nonsolicit and trade secret cases with amounts in controversy ranging from millions to tens of millions of dollars;
- Companies in intellectual property and Lanham Act cases with amounts in controversy ranging from millions to tens of millions of dollars;
- Food distribution companies in a wide variety of matters, including hundred-million dollar food contamination cases;
- Banks, securities firms and other financial institutions in breach of contract and UCC cases and in FINRA arbitrations with amounts in controversy ranging up to the millions of dollars;
- Directors and corporations in securities cases with amounts in controversy ranging from tens of millions to billions of dollars; and
- Companies and contractors in construction cases with amounts in controversy ranging from millions to tens of millions of dollars.
Aaron has been named one of 40 Business Leaders Under 40 by the Philadelphia Business Journal, a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" in Pennsylvania by American Lawyer Media and a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics.
When not practicing law, Aaron serves on the board of Philabundance, the largest nonprofit hunger relief agency in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, as well as on the board of his synagogue, Keneseth Israel. He is also active in the United Way, and has headed teams of lawyers who provide volunteer income tax assistance to the needy, so that they can claim the earned income tax credit.
Aaron earned his bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, in 1988 from the University of Michigan, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, in 1991, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the law review.
Aaron served as a law clerk to the Hon. Edward N. Cahn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, from 1991-1992.