Adrian Cohen

Adjunct Professor

Education

J.B.A., University of Wisconsin
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School

Biography

ADRIAN COHEN received a bachelors degree in journalism and a law degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin. After graduating, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. He then joined the Milwaukee law firm of Charne, Clancy & Taitelman as an associate and later as partner, practicing commercial litigation. He was president of the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association. He left the law firm to establish a video distribution business based in Prague, which became the exclusive film distributor for major studios such as Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios, and also distributed for Hanna-Barbera, Turner Pictures, and others. The company was acquired in 1995 by one of the largest American independent video distribution companies. Currently, he manages family business investments, including a manufactured home community in the Milwaukee suburb of Cudahy. Since 1984, Cohen has taught Secured Transactions at the UW Law School, and was named 2018 Adjunct Teacher of the Year. During the Spring semesters, beginning in 2019, he teaches Secured Transactions at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Mr. Cohen is a trustee of the Heard Museum of Native American art in Phoenix. He chaired the boards of the Center for Public Representation, the Milwaukee Center for Independence, and St. Luke’s South Shore Hospital, and also served as a trustee of the Ronald MacDonald House of Southeast Wisconsin. He and his wife, Carla, split their time between Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin and Scottsdale, Arizona.

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  • Consumer Law

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