[1] He is a senior partner at Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson LLP,[2] a 21-person family law firm in New York City.
[5][6][7] Cohen is a nationally recognized divorce attorney, holding an adjunct professorship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
In 2019 he was also appointed by Justice Alan D. Scheinkman as Special Master in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Pilot Program in the Second Judicial Department.
[18] In 2019 he was appointed by Presiding Justice Rolando T. Acosta to the Appellate Division, Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department.
[20] Cohen has been principal attorney in a number of high-profile, high-net-worth dissolutions, for clients in a variety of industries, including finance, entertainment, real estate and politics, in New York and other states across the country.
[8] These include Melinda Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg,[21] Christie Brinkley,[22] Swedish countess Marie Douglas-David,[23] James Gandolfini,[10] Henry Kravis,[24] Dina Lohan,[25] Marla Maples,[26] Tommy Mottola,[27] Athina Onassis,[28] Charlotte Sarkozy,[29] Uma Thurman,[30] and Ivana Trump.
[4] Cohen has been profiled in articles in The Wall Street Journal “The Ultimate Power Hobby”;[1] The New York Times “Counterintelligence; The Patch-up, From the Master of the Split-Up”;[4] Business Insider "Melinda Gates' divorce lawyer told us how he handles bitter splits between billionaire clients" and the Financial Times "The pandemic boosts business for a top New York divorce lawyer".