Chip is one of the founders of Cohen & Grigsby and also a former President of the firm. His practice focuses on complex business/commercial litigation and defense of accounting firms. He is a Director and a member of the firm's Litigation and Securities Litigation Groups.
Chip's areas of emphasis include defense of accounting firms in financial statement and professional negligence litigation and defense of brokerage firms in customer complaint cases.
He also represents clients in securities litigation and class actions, as well as general commercial litigation, including complex contractual disputes.
Chip is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County.
He was president of the Longue Vue Club from 2001 to 2003 and previously served as board president for the Arsenal Family and Children's Center.
He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. One of the class action cases he tried to a successful defense verdict was recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the biggest wins in a jury trial in the United States in 1996.
Throughout his career, Chip has been a frequent lecturer and author on a wide variety of topics, including, but not limited to, complex business/commercial litigation and defense of accounting firms.
He presented "Preparing the Expert Witness to Avoid or Defeat in the Daubert Challenge" at the Annual Federal Practice Program of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County in 2004. He has also given a lecture, entitled "Challenging the Use of Technology for Demonstrative Purposes in the Courtroom," for the Academy of Trial Lawyers.
He has been quoted in the IntelligencerJournal of Lancaster, Pa.; the Harrisburg Patriot; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; the CPA Journal; and the Financial Trader among other publications. He co-authored "The Threat of a Public Trial-Sexual Harassment Cases Aiming to Break the Quiet Arbitration" for the Financial Trader.