Mr. Cohen has been an active participant 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 and as 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 his service with the DOJ and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, Mr. Cohen was a white collar criminal defense attorney with Dorsey & Whitney and, previously, with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. He began his career at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, serving as an Assistant DA under the Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau.
