What is the most common complaint against Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened to sue you for very old debt". This is based on 34 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC are falling. The company received 5 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC's reputation grade?

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC has a reputation grade of B (score: 64.7/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC has a 94% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC operate?

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 5 states, with the most complaints from New York (26 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 5 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

14
Attempts to collect debt not owed

9
Written notification about debt

3
False statements or representation

2
Disclosure verification of debt

2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record cohen-cohen-law-llc Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC

Grade B · 34 CFPB filings · 94% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1446 · compose #1806

VOL 34
GRADE B
12MO 5
STATES 5
TIMELY 94%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,446
COMPOSE #1,806

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Alliance Group & Associates LLC (34 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC's 34 CFPB complaints sit next to Alliance Group & Associates LLC on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

76.5% of Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC's CFPB filings land in New York

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: New York 76.5%; 26 of 34 filings · 5 states touched
Spike month: 2016-11 20.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks: #1,446 volume; #1,806 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC compare to its peers?

How does Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

94%

24%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-11 2025-07

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	14
Attempts to collect debt not owed	9
Written notification about debt	3
False statements or representation	2
Disclosure verification of debt	2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1
Electronic communications	1
Taking/threatening an illegal action	1

Where do complaints against Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC come from?

Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

New York

26
Connecticut

3
New Jersey

2
Florida

1
Illinois

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Cohen & Cohen Law, LLC: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 34.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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