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Mr. Gassman is admitted to practice in New York, and in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
Besrat Gebrewold
Besrat J. Gebrewold joined Cohen Milstein as an Associate in 2007 and is a member of the Antitrust
practice group.
Ms. Gebrewold works on In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.), a multibillion
dollar antitrust action alleging that the world’s major cargo airlines colluded in setting the
amounts of various surcharges they imposed on their customers, and on In re Urethane Antitrust
Litigation (Polyether Polyol Cases) (D. Kan.), in which she represents a class of direct purchasers of
several types of chemicals who allegedly were overcharged as a result of a nationwide price-fixing and
market allocation conspiracy. One defendant, Bayer, has already settled for $55.3 million and is
providing cooperation pursuant to its obligations under the settlement agreement. Ms. Gebrewold also
represents Registered Nurses employed by hospitals in Albany, Detroit and Memphis in lawsuits
alleging that their employers unlawfully fixed their wages in violation of federal antitrust laws.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein as an associate, Mr. Gebrewold was a summer associate with the firm
in 2006, and worked as a law clerk while still in law school.
Ms. Gebrewold has an LL.B from Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Law in Ethiopia. She was also
a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, where she received an LL.M in Common
Law Studies for her thesis “The Role of International Law as a Deterrent to Aggression.” She received
a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in May 2007, where she was a
member of the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.
Ms. Gebrewold is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and is a member of
the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Karen L. Handorf
Karen Handorf joined the Firm in 2007 as Of Counsel, is a member of the Employee Benefits (ERISA)
practice group and is the head of the Employee Benefits Appellate Practice.
Ms. Handorf is currently involved in litigation and appeals involving a broad range of employee
benefits issues including ESOPs, employer stock, and the termination of benefits. She represented a
class of 30,000 Goodyear union retirees in litigation in which Cohen Milstein obtained approval of a
class action settlement between the retirees, Goodyear and the United Steel Workers, resulting in the
establishment of a $1 billion trust through which retiree healthcare benefits will be provided in the
future. Redington v. Goodyear (N.D. Ohio). She has co-authored amicus briefs filed by the firm on
behalf of the Pension Rights Center in the U.S. Supreme Court (LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg &
Associates) and in the Third Circuit (In re Schering-Plough Corporation ERISA Litigation). She also
played a primary role in drafting the appellate brief in In re Citigroup ERISA Litigation (2d Cir.)
(challenging the dismissal of a complaint alleging the imprudent purchase of employer stock) and in
Boos v. AT&T (5th Cir.) (involving the issue of whether a program providing cash payments to certain
“pension eligible” retirees to reimburse them for their personal telephone expenses during retirement is
a pension plan).
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