About
Mark Cohen
Mr.
Cohen grew up in Denver. He earned his BA in economics at
Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1980, then
returned to Colorado and received his law degree from the
University of Colorado at Boulder in 1983. From 1983 to
1987 Mr. Cohen served as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air
Force. He also served two years as a Special Asst. U.S.
Attorney in Nebraska. In 1986, he won the American Bar Association's
Outstanding Young Military Service Lawyer award.
From
1987 to 1995 Mr. Cohen practiced law in Nebraska, where
he represented an agricultural lender in collection and
bankruptcy matters throughout the state. He also successfully
represented defendants in several high profile criminal
cases. In twenty-seven years as a trial lawyer Mr. Cohen
has conducted more than 100 jury trials. He has served as
an on-demand military law expert for MSNBC.
Mr.
Cohen and his family returned to Colorado in 1995. He served
as a prosecutor for seven years and served as Interim Municipal
Judge for the City of Boulder for eighteen months. He also
served on the Executive Board of the Colorado Municipal
League. He currently serves on the Board of Editors of The
Colorado Lawyer, a monthly magazine distributed to all members
of the Colorado Bar Association. He has a knack for getting
to the point and explaining complex concepts in understandable
terms.
Because
of his diverse background, Mr. Cohen has experience in many
areas of the law, but his practice emphasizes agricultural
and equine law, business litigation, contract and lease
disputes, corporate veil issues, intellectual property and
unfair competition, and real estate law and litigation.
An
accomplished writer, Mr. Cohen has authored six articles
in the prestigious American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts
series, including the primary article on piercing the corporate
veil. One of his interests is the use of "Plain English"
rather than legal jargon in legal writing. Mr. Cohen also
wrote two mysteries published by Time/Warner. His first
mystery, The Fractal Murders, was a Book Sense Top Ten mystery
selection and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. The
sequel, Bluetick Revenge, won widespread praise from well-known
authors, including Kinky Friedman and Margaret Coel.
Mr.
Cohen is a student of General Semantics and studied philosophy
and logic at the graduate level for one year.
Mr.
Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of and a volunteer
instructor for DART, Inc., a non-profit that offers training
in preventing and responding to workplace violence. He holds
a black belt in Shudokan karate and is an instructor at
the Flatirons Karate Club.
Mr.
Cohen is admitted to practice law in Colorado and Nebraska
(inactive). He is admitted to the Federal District Courts
in Nebraska and Colorado, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals,
the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Tax Court,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the U.S.
Court of Veterans Appeals (now the U.S. Court of Appeals
for Veterans Claims), and the United States Supreme Court.
He has been admitted to practice law in the federal district
courts for Colorado, Nebraska, and the Eastern District
of Michigan. He has been admitted pro hac vice in other
state courts. Mr. Cohen is a member of the Colorado Bar
Association and the Agricultural Law Section, the Boulder
County Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.
For
a complete list of Mr. Cohen’s publications, lectures,
and awards, please visit http://www.cohenslaw.com/markscohen.html
