About
Mr. Cohen has a passion for drafting and reviewing documents, and helping clients solve disputes bobbing up out of all styles of prison files. He believes the distinction between litigation and transactional paintings is regularly synthetic. Business litigation and real property litigation are almost always the end result of negative drafting, insufficient investigation, or an incomplete negotiation. He prefers Plain English over "Legalese" and believes the use of Plain English in business and regulation lowers prices, improves productiveness, will increase credibility, and reduces misunderstandings.
Mr. Cohen is also a verified litigator and trial attorney. In 2012 he gained a four.2 million dollar verdict in a breach of contract case that included almost two million bucks in punitive damages. His philosophy and enjoy allow him to facilitate transactions today which might be least possibly to come to be proceedings the following day. He is a especially reputable Boulder commercial enterprise legal professional.
Mr. Cohen grew up in Denver. He earned his BA in economics at Whitman College 1980, then back to Colorado and obtained his law diploma from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1983. From 1983 to 1987 Mr. Cohen served as a Judge Advocate inside the U.S. Air Force. He additionally served two years as a Special Asst. U.S. Lawyer in Nebraska. In 1986, he won the American Bar Association s Outstanding Young Military Service Lawyer award.
From 1987-1995 Mr. Cohen practiced law in Nebraska, wherein he represented an agricultural lender in collection and financial disaster matters for the duration of the country. He additionally efficiently represented defendants in numerous excessive profile crook cases. In twenty-six years as an ordeal attorney Mr. Cohen has carried out greater than 100 jury trials. He has served as an on-call for military regulation expert for MSNBC.
Mr. Cohen and his family again to the Denver area in 1995. He served as a Prosecuting Lawyer for the Denver suburb of Westminster for seven years, and served as Interim Municipal Judge for the City of Boulder for eighteen months. He these days serves as Municipal Judge for the Town of Lochbuie, quantities of that are in Adams County and quantities of which are in Weld County. He also served on the Executive Board of the Colorado Municipal League in Denver. He served as an elected member of his city s Board of Trustees and on his metropolis s Board of Zoning Adjustment. He has fantastic revel in in all aspects of nearby authorities.
Because of his numerous heritage, Mr. Cohen has revel in in lots of regions of the law, however his practices emphasizes agricultural and equine regulation, commercial enterprise litigation, highbrow belongings and unfair opposition, municipal law and special districts, real property law and litigation, and tax-exempt organizations and exchange institutions. He currently serves as General Counsel for the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, a 501(c)(6) trade affiliation with greater than 8,000 participants.
An done writer, Mr. Cohen has authored six articles within the prestigious American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts series, which include the number one article on piercing the corporate veil. He is a member of the Board of Editors of The Colorado Lawyer, a month-to-month mag distributed to all participants of the Colorado Bar Association. One of his pastimes is the usage of "Plain English" as opposed to criminal jargon in felony writing. Mr. Cohen additionally wrote two mysteries posted through Time/Warner. His first thriller, The Fractal Murders, changed into a Book Sense thriller selection and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. The sequel, Bluetick Revenge, received great praise from widely recognized authors, consisting of Kinky Friedman and Margaret Coel.
Mr. Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of and a volunteer trainer for DART, Inc., a non-income that offers training in preventing and responding to workplace violence, and with that history he drafts and critiques place of business violence regulations. He holds a black belt in Shudokan karate and is an teacher at the Flatirons Karate Club.
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- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
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Graduation year: 1992
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