Background
Cohn, Steven D. was born on November 13, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
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Steven D. Cohn
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New York University (Bachelor of Arts, 1970. Master of Laws, 1977). Brooklyn Law School (Juris Doctor, 1973).
Spoken languages: Spanish.
Career
Worked at Goldberg & Cohn (Brooklyn, New York) specializing in General Practice with emphasis on Family Law, Criminal Litigation, Commercial and Municipal Law. Admitted to the bar, 1974, New New York 1975, United States. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and United States.
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
1977, United States. Supreme Court and United States. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Chief Counsel, New York State Assembly, Majority Program Committee, 1978-1980. Counsel, New York State Assembly Committee on Public Authority Structures, 1981-1985.
Chief Counsel, New York City Council Special Committee on the Homeless, 1987-1990.
Counsel to Councilman Ken Fisher, 1990. Member, Board of Trustees, Vice President, Brooklyn Bar Association, 1996. Association of the Bar, City of New York, Family Court and Family Law Committee, 1992.
Author: "New York"s Equitable Distribution Law - A Year Later," New York Law School, Law Review Volume 27, Number.
2, 1981; "Valuation of Professional Licenses and Small Business Interests Under the New York Equitable Distribution Law," New York State Bar Association Family Law Review Volume 16, Number. 3, March, 1984; "The Burden of Proofing a Divorce Action Based Upon the Grounds of Cruel and Inhuman Treatment," New York State Bar Association, Family Law Review Volume 17, Number.
2, 1985. "Child Support: Can lieutenant Finally Be Collected? Some New Teeth for the Enforcement of Child Support Orders," New York State Bar Association, Family Law Review Volume 18, Number.
3, 1984; "What is Section 170 (a) of the Domestic Relations Law?" Family Law Review Volume 18, Number. 4, December, 1986; "Is lieutenant Possible to Deny a Natural Parent the Right to Visitation?" Family Law Review Volume 20, Number.
2, June, 1988. "Relocation - The New Breed of Matrimonial Cases," Family Law Review, 1989.
"College Education - Parental Option or Obligation?" Family Law Review, 1990. "The Best Interests of the Child and Religion," 1991 Family Law Quarterly.
"Mental Illness and Divorce," May 1992, Family Law Quarterly. Appellate Division, Second Department and Brooklyn Bar Association Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Education Contribution to the legal profession in Matrimonial Law, 1984, 1989.
Certificate of Honor, New York State Bar Association - Attorney Advisor, 1988.
New York State Mock Trial Tournament Winner, 1984. Presentation Chairman, Family Law, A Special Focus in Children, Brooklyn Law School, 1994. Founder, New York State Lawyers in the Classroom Program, 1976.
Treasurer and Vice Chairman, Brooklyn Bar Association, Family Law Section, 1987.
Vice-Chairman, Brooklyn Bar Association, Municipal Law Section, 1989. Lecturer: BAR-BRI Bar Review Course, 1984.
Matrimonial Practice, Lecture Course Appellate Division, Brooklyn Bar Association, 1989. Valuation of Professional Licenses and Small Business Interests, 1988.
Proof of Grounds for Divorce, Visitation and Custody Issues, 1988.
Relocation and Best Interest Analysis, The New York "Get" Law, 1988. Vice-Chairman, Brooklyn Bar Association lecture on Brooklyn and the New Child Support Standards Acting, 1989. Arbitrator, Small Claims Court of the Civil Court, 1975.
Board of Directors, Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association, 1980.
Committeeman, New York State, 1982. Member: Brooklyn, New York State and American Bar Associations.
Military: Lieutenant Colonel, New York Guard. Founded in 1977 by Steven Doctorate. Cohn and Richard South. Goldberg, the firm is embarking on its second decade in historic Brooklyn Heights, New New York
We are a general practice law firm whose principals offer more than fifty (50) years of experience in the fields of business, corporate, criminal, environmental, real estate and matrimonial law.
The firm has been successful in representing clients with professional disciplinary problems and has assisted many a client with the obstacles they have encountered navigating their ways through governmental bureaucracies. Our firm offers to its clients our record of outstanding performance and achievement.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Board of Trustees, Vice President, Brooklyn Bar Association, 1996. Association of the Bar, City of New York, Family Court and Family Law Committee, 1992.
