Practice Areas: Family Law, Real Estate, Administrative Law; view more
Licensed in New York since: 1974
Education: Brooklyn Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2018 - 2024 Details
As partner at Goldberg & Cohn LLP, Steven D. Cohn represents clients in the New York City metropolitan area. He handles commercial cases and Real Estate matters, Administrative Law and Family Law. A recipient of the Annual Award for Outstanding Jurisprudence and Public Service from the Brooklyn Bar Association, he also received the Pro Bono Award from the New York State Bar Association and was given an Award of Special Recognition from the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association.
In 1970, Mr. Cohn graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, and was a member of the Dean's List. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, where he graduated in 1973, with his Juris Doctor. Several years later, he obtained his Master of Laws (LLM) from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York, and before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Mr. Cohn has a lengthy history of working with professional organizations and is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA, the American Bar Association (ABA), Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association (BWBA) and the Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA). He is also a founding member of the Volunteer Lawyers Project.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) and a District Delegate and Member of the Executive Committee for the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). With extensive experience working in state and federal courts in New York, he takes a broad and results-oriented approach to every case that he handles for his clients, both corporate and individuals.
Practice areas
Family Law, Real Estate: Business, Administrative LawFocus areas
Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Father's Rights, Government Benefits, Licensing, Marital Property, Mediation & Collaborative Law, Name Change, Paternity, Prenuptial Agreements, Same Sex Family Law
- 60% Family Law
- 30% Real Estate: Business
- 10% Administrative Law
First Admitted: 1974, New York
Professional Webpage: http://www.goldbergandcohn.com/attorneys-staff/steven-d-cohn
- Continuum Health Partners and Long Island College Hospital – Member, Board of Regents
- Volunteer Lawyers Project – Founding Member, Board of Trustees
- Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh – Community Reinvestment Act Committee, Chairman Governance Committee
- Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh – Member Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Chairman Community Reinvestment Act Committee, Chairman Governance Committee
- Bar-Bri Bar Review Course – Family Law Instructor
- Fashion Institute of Technology – Adjunct Professor
- New York State Bar Association Member – New York City – 2012 Committee
- New York State Bar Association – Lawyers in the Classroom Program Founder and Instructor
- New York State Bar Association – Delegate, Second Judicial District
- New York State Bar Association Member – Special Commission on Legal Services for the Middle Income
- New York State Bar Association – Executive Committee and District Delegate
- New York State Bar Association – various committees including General Practice Section
- Brooklyn Bar Association – Committee, Audit & Budget Committee
- Brooklyn Bar Association – Past President, Chair CLE Committee, Past Vice-President – Grievance
- Supreme Court of the United States, 1977
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York – Family Law Committee and Matrimonial Law Committee
- American Bar Association – elected a Fellow of the American Bar Association
- Appellate Division – member Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts
- United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1995
- Federal Courts, Second Circuit – Eastern and Southern Districts, 1975
- State of New York – Appellate Division, Second Department, 1975
- North Brooklyn Development Corporation – Honorary Board of Trustees
- Principal for a Day
- Yeshiva of Flatbush – Board of Officers, Vice President
- Pesach Tikvah Hope Development, Corp. – Honorary Board of Trustees
- Democratic State Committeeman – 50th A.D. Kings County, 1982-2010
- New York Guard – Colonel – Retired
- Catholic Lawyers Association Ecumenical Award
- Brooklyn Bar Association – Annual Award, Outstanding Jurisprudence and Public Service
- Rotary Club “Service Above Self Award”
- Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association – Award of Special Recognition
- New York State Bar Association Pro Bono Award
- New York University, New York, B.A., Politics, 1970, Dean’s List
- New York University Law School, New York, LL.M. 1977
- Family Law Review, “Relocation – The New Breed of Matrimonial Cases”
- New York Law School, Law Review – Vol. 27, No. 2 – 1981
- New York State Bar Association, Family Law Review – Vol. 16, No. 1 – March, 1984
- New York State Bar Association, Family Law Review – Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1985
- Brooklyn Barrister – Vol. 37, No. 2 – January, 1986
- Brooklyn Barrister – Vol. 38, No. 1 – November, 1986
- Brooklyn Barrister – Vol. 38, No. 4 – May, 1987
- “College Education – Parental Option or Obligation?”
- Brooklyn Bar Association, Brooklyn Barrister,
- Family Law Review – Vol. 20, No. 2 – June, 1988
- Brooklyn Barrister – Vol. 42, No. 2 – January, 1991
- Family Law Quarterly – May, 1992
- Brooklyn Law School, Presentation Chairman, Family Law,
- New York State Bar Association, One On One – Vol. 22, No. 2,
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2018 - 2024
