About Jonathan D
Jonathan D Cohn studied authorities and regulation as an undergraduate at Lafayette College, earning his B.A. in 2004. He continued his legal education at Albany Law School, completing his J.D. in 2008. Those years shaped an early curiosity in criminal and traffic-related practice and laid the groundwork for his court work.
After law school he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Karen Drago thru the New York State Unified Court System's Legal Fellows Program in 2008. That clerkship exposed him to trial procedure and the realistic demands of case control. The following year he joined the Rensselaer County District Attorney's Office as an assistant district lawyer, the place he handled prosecutions and discovered to manage a heavy caseload beneath tight time limits.
In 2010 he entered private practice and have become a partner at Gerstenzang, Sills, Cohn & Gerstenzang. Over the subsequent decade he built a trial practice that has included vehicle and traffic things and criminal defense. He has represented individuals at arraignments, contested hearings and jury trials, and he has filed and argued motions at each the trial and appellate ranges.
Professional involvement has been a consistent part of his career. He has served because the chair of the Vehicle and Traffic Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association, a position that places him within the center of coverage discussions and ongoing legal training on visitors problems throughout the state. He additionally has been lively within the National College for DUI Defense. He served because the organization's state delegate from 2015 to 2019 and has been on its school since 2018, contributing to seminars and education sessions for protection attorneys.
Colleagues describe him as methodical in the court and organized at proceedings. He attracts on his prosecutorial experience when advising clients approximately strategy and likely outcomes. He additionally brings courtroom familiarity from his early clerkship days, which he uses to anticipate procedural developments and evidentiary disputes.
He maintains his practice in New York and continues to handle cases that touch on automobile and traffic regulation, DUI protection, and related criminal matters. He currently advocates for clients in state-degree criminal and traffic hearings, and in matters that proceed through trial and appeal.
