About Shawn Brian
Shawn Brian Cohen earned his bachelor’s degree from Penn State University in 1993. At Penn State he served as president of the National Agricultural Marketing Association, an early leadership position that combined organizational duty with realistic exposure to agricultural markets and policy problems. He returned to study room learn about at Widener University School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor in 1995. While in law program he finished an insolvency health facility and the Pennsylvania health facility, practical placements that gave him trial experience and direct client contact earlier than graduation.
After law program Cohen based his practice in Pennsylvania and keeps active affiliation with the Pennsylvania State Bar. His membership in the state bar reflects his licensure to practice in Pennsylvania and his ongoing participation within the state’s legal community. Over the years he has handled matters that draw on the skills developed in clinic work: case preparation, court appearances and drafting court filings. He has labored on client counseling and legal proceedings in state forums and has experience managing the procedural and evidentiary needs that those things require.
Colleagues and clients have famous his continuous, methodical strategy to casework. He tends to emphasize careful preparation and clean explanation of options. That fashion is clear in how he approaches hearings and negotiations — continuous, precision-focused, aimed at resolving the instant legal question while keeping an eye fixed on longer-term consequences for the client. His background in agricultural marketing has sometimes informed his handling of business and farm-related legal questions, the place practical knowledge of marketing and deliver issues can affect business making plans and dispute resolution.
Cohen’s health facility knowledge remains a throughline in his work. The insolvency clinic exposed him to creditor-debtor matters and insolvency procedures at an early stage. The Pennsylvania clinic provided knowledge in state court practice and procedural guidelines. Those formative experiences have formed the types of things he accepts and how he prepares them, from preliminary intake thru pleadings and proceedings.
Outside the office he has maintained ties to professional networks in Pennsylvania and kept up with ongoing legal training necessities. He continues to practice law in Pennsylvania, dealing with insolvency matters and other civil issues in state courts.
