BERNARD S. COHEN, ESQUIRE

Attorney:
Mr. Cohen has litigated cases involving breach of contract, anti trust, securities fraud, personal injury, civil rights, criminal law, environmental law, family law, constitutional law, professional malpractice, commercial law and consumer protection. He was formeraly certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is presently senior counsel to the law firm of Dunn, Curcio & Keating, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia. The firm engages in a general trial practice.

Legislator:
Member of Virginia House of Delegates, 1980-1995. Committee member: Courts of Justice; Corporations, Insurance and Banking; Labor and Commerce; Chief Patron of legislation to allow death with dignity for the terminally ill; protect tenants in units convened to condominiums; ensure rights of condominium owners to assert claims regarding commonly held property; grant child visitation rights to grandparents, stepparents, and other family members; establish a motorcycle rider safety training fund; and to provide for long-term care insurance.

Mr. Cohen was appointed by the Speaker of the House and served as a member of the Virginia Code Commission until 2000.

Government Service:
From 1956 to 1961, Mr. Cohen was employed as a Labor Economist and Labor Law Advisor at the U.S. Department of Labor.

Teaching and Speaking:
At George Washington University, he taught Environmental Litigation for five years. He was a member of the faculty at the National College of Advocacy at the Harvard Law School, August 1973. Mr. Cohen has addressed the Alabama State Bar, the Texas State Bar, the Young Presidents Organization, the Practicing Law Institute, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and numerous civic and professional groups.

Landmark Litigation:
Counsel to Mr. And Mrs. Richard Loving in the Supreme Court decision of Loving vs. Virginia, 388 US 1(1967), which resulted in declaring unconstitutional the anti-miscegenation statutes of nineteen states.

Noteworthy Litigation:
Counsel to several environmental groups in a lawsuit against a developer which prevented the landfill of thirty-six acres of the Potomac River at Hunting Creek estuary.

Counsel to Virginians for Dulles in a suit against the F.A.A. and major airlines to abate jet Hoise at Washington National Airport.

Positions:
1. President, Northern Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, 1967.
2. Chairman, Alexandria Democratic City Committee, 1967.
3. Member, Alexandria Chamber of Commerce
4. Alternate Delegate to the National Democratic Convention, 1980.

Professional Associations and Affiliations:
Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Alexandria Bar Association, American Civil Liberties Union.

Education:
City College of New York, B.B.A, 1956; Georgetown University Law School, J.D., 1960.

Publications:
‘Legal Defense of Environmental Rights”
Trial Magazine, August/September 1969

“The Constitution, The Public Trust Doctrine, and the Environment”
Utah Law Review, Vol. 1970, June, No. 3

“Law and the Environment”
Virginia Law Weekly, Vol. XXII, No. 17, March 5, 1971

"Legal Control of the Environment"
Presented at THE SEARCH FOR A QUALITY OF LIFE: CHALLENGE OF THE 70’s SYMPOSIUM, State University College at Oneonta, NY, November 1970.

“The Social Costs of Environmental Degradation”
Case and Comment, September/October 1971

"Judicial Recognition of the Substantive Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969” (co-author)
Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review Vol. XIII, No.4, March 1972

Environmental Rights and Remedies (co-author)
Lawyers Co-Op Publishing Company, 1971

“Discovery in Product Liability Litigation"
Personal Injury Annual, 1978

“Gymnastics Litigation”
Trial Magazine, August 1980

“The Trial Notebook: Successful Trial Preparation”
ATLA Seminar, May 1989

"Future Directions in Law Office Systems"
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Toronto, Canada, 1991

“My Favorite Computer Program”
Trial Magazine, January 1992

“Computer Applications in the Handling of a Products Liability Case”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Washington, D.C., 1992

“Voir Dire Under Limited Circumstances"
Presented at the Second All-Star Trial Advocacy Skills Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, May 19, 1992