Cogent

Cogent

Lawyer / Legal Services

About Cogent

Cogent has assembled a team of talented, sharp, savvy lawyers to offer clients exactly what they want, as they want it: fast, efficient legal advice generating quantifiable and affordable business results. We excel because we:

Offer Top Talent

We have highly experienced attorneys. Our attorneys have spent years practicing with some of the country’s largest and most prestigious law firms and have held senior positions with major corporations and federal government agencies.

Drive Business Results

We understand business and we think like business leaders. We learn our clients’ business, strategic objectives, and stakeholders and we understand that our legal advice is a means to achieve business ends.

Create Value

We find ways to capture hidden opportunities and limit risk to increase the bottom line for our clients.

Make Connections

We are highly connected so we always introduce our clients to potential customers, investors, advisors and/or strategic partners to help them achieve their business goals.

Operate Intelligently, Flexibly and Efficiently

We avoid unnecessary expenses like marbled offices and luxury boxes and are constantly striving for efficiencies, allowing us to keep our billing rates extraordinarily competitive.

Provide Cost-Efficient Services

We provide our clients with budgets and estimates for specific engagements and advise immediately if we anticipate material changes. We also offer fixed fee and hybrid billing arrangements.

Features Cogent

Cogent has assembled a group of senior attorneys who developed their deep expertise:

  • representing clients at major law firms
  • serving in senior government positions, and
  • founding and leading tech and alternative currency startups.

Our advice is rooted in entrepreneurial experience. We are energized by working with fast-growing clients. With our unique team and our low-overhead business model, Cogent delivers top-tier services without the big-law rates. We provide innovative solutions and look for opportunities to connect clients to our network of service providers, organizations, investors, and potential customers.

Team

Evan Smith
Business Executive and Attorney
Mark Ghatan
Partner
Evgenia Sorokina
Partner
MAUREEN MURAT
Of Counsel
Andrew Hirsch
Partner
Thomas Goldstein
Founding Partner