Joel Cohen

Joel Cohen is a highly respected white-collar criminal lawyer in New York. He has practiced in that field, as well as complex civil litigation, at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP for more than 30 years, after having worked for ten years as a prosecutor for New York State and the U.S. Department of Justice. Joel writes regularly for the New York Law Journal, The Hill, Law & Crime, and others on criminal law, legal ethics, and social policy. He frequently lectures lawyers, judges, and the public on...See more

Joel Cohen is a highly respected white-collar criminal lawyer in New York. He has practiced in that field, as well as complex civil litigation, at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP for more than 30 years, after having worked for ten years as a prosecutor for New York State and the U.S. Department of Justice. Joel writes regularly for the New York Law Journal, The Hill, Law & Crime, and others on criminal law, legal ethics, and social policy. He frequently lectures lawyers, judges, and the public on varied issues, including ethics. He teaches a class at Fordham Law School, "How Judges Decide," based on his earlier book, Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They Decide. Joel has also published Broken Scales: Reflections on Injustice and several works of Biblical fiction, including Moses: A Memoir. He has also authored Truth Be Veiled, a Justice Steele Murder Case, a novel that addresses the criminal lawyer's dilemma in dealing with the truth. See less