Mr. Cohen has been active in Bar Association activities throughout his career, including serving as co-chair of the ABA White Collar Young Lawyers Subcommittee for the New York region, secretary of the Criminal Courts Committee, and as a member of the Criminal Advocacy Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, a membership by invitation to a group of top criminal defense practitioners in New York. Mr. Cohen is also a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Cohen is a member of the UJA/Criminal Law Committee as well as alumni groups for the Manhattan DA’ s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cohen previously served as an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law. He has also guest lectured at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the area of corporate investigations.
Prior to joining Goodwin, Mr. Cohen served in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2010 to 2013, where he was Deputy Chief of the Division’s Fraud Section as well as Deputy Director of the Deepwater Horizon Task Force. He also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia. Mr. Cohen was previously a white collar criminal defense attorney with Dorsey & Whitney and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan serving under the Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau.
