Lawyer who died in parking garage fire worked at BigLaw firm
A lawyer found dead last week in a fire in a Chicago parking garage was of counsel at Foley & Lardner.
Police are investigating the death of the lawyer, 60-year-old Louis Cohen, report the Chicago Tribune, NBC Chicago and the Am Law Daily (sub. req.). Autopsy results were still pending on Monday, according to WLS-TV.
An unidentified source told NBC Chicago that Cohen’s badly burned body was found on the ground next to an electrical box.
Cohen focused his practice at Foley & Lardner on commercial real estate development, according to a statement on the firm’s website. He moved to Foley & Lardner eight months ago from Locke Lord. He had joined a Locke Lord predecessor firm more than six years ago, and before that, he worked for 27 years at DLA Piper.
During his time at Locke Lord, Cohen represented the city of Atlanta in a deal to build a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
Cohen is the second Chicago-area attorney to die in mysterious circumstances in the last two months. Northbrook police are investigating the strangulation death of real-estate lawyer Jigar Patel, who was found dead in his office on Dec. 7.
