Joel Cohen

October 13, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

All the people of the world want -- or likely, need -- a confidant.

By Joel Cohen

7 minute read

March 21, 2011 | National Law Journal

Government's initial motion to prevent the filing of 'friend of the court' briefs in Rubashkin case was unusual and troubling.

By Bennett L. Gershman and Joel Cohen

5 minute read

September 13, 2004 | National Law Journal

A funny thing happened on the way to the Martha Stewart trial. Criminal suspects in federal investigations learned the virtue of simply clamming up.

By Joel CohenSpecial to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

November 15, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Way too often, a lawyer gives the client the best advice he can, perhaps the advice that every other skilled lawyer would impart under the circumstances, only to be met with the client's foolish rejection of it.

By Joel Cohen

7 minute read

February 02, 2009 | National Law Journal

On Jan. 14, when the application for Bernard Madoff's pretrial detention was denied, the public was outraged by this latest "defeat" in the Madoff bail watch. TV commentators got swept up in the public outcry. But the purpose of bail is to secure the defendant's presence in court for trial and to ensure that the public isn't endangered in the interim. The commentators need to get it straight. They must explain clearly to viewers the time-honored protocols and procedures of the criminal justice system.

By Joel Cohen / Special to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

November 19, 2012 | Law.com

By Joel Cohen

8 minute read

June 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

The partisan politics of the U.S. attorney firings has infected the law enforcement decisions of all 93 U.S. attorneys, and every decision now must be scrutinized in the crucible of political ideology rather than good prosecutorial practice.

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman/Special to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

May 21, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

David Nosal and his accomplices did something wrong. No question. But was it -- should it be viewed as -- criminal? The Ninth Circuit, en banc, dramatically split on that question in interpreting one particular criminal statute designed to deal with the ever-emerging technology of the computer (U. S. v. Nosal). How did the opining judges come to disagree?

By Joel Cohen

8 minute read

April 16, 2012 | Law.com

By Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm

10 minute read

April 10, 2012 | New York Law Journal

In his Ethics and Criminal Practice column, Joel Cohen, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, uses a hypothetical situation based on 'Daugerdas' to illustrate the tightrope attorneys sometimes have to walk when deciding how much to tell a client about strategy.

By Joel Cohen

14 minute read