Rachel Cowen

Practice Areas

Rachel B. Cowen, co-head of Dechert’s labor and employment practice, brings decades of experience handling complex, high-stakes litigation. She has tried numerous cases to verdict or award and collected more than US$50 million in judgments and settlements as a plaintiff in employee mobility and trade secret cases. Ms. Cowen has also argued numerous cases to the United States Court of Appeals.

Ms. Cowen regularly conducts investigations and advises boards of directors on diversity, pay equity and sensitive, high-profile claims of discrimination or harassment. She has conducted more than a dozen investigations involving allegations of misconduct by CEOs and other senior executives and Section 16 officers. Ms. Cowen has testified before credentials committees and elsewhere in connection with her investigations. She regularly conducts pay equity audits with employers and compensation committees.