Adjunct to receive Bar award

06/17/2008

Adjunct to receive Bar award
Larry Cohen 
Adjunct professor Larry Cohen
     Larry J. Cohen, an adjunct faculty member of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, will receive the President's Award on Friday, June 20, at the 2008 State Bar of Arizona convention in Tucson.
     Cohen, of the Cohen Law Firm in Phoenix, is among six people who will be given the award by Bar president Dan McAuliffe. The award is made to people who have demonstrated enormous effort toward furthering the president's goals and priorities during his or her term.
     "Larry has consistently been a significant, entertaining and informative presenter of continuing legal education (CLE) programs in the critical fields of ethics and professional responsibility," McAuliffe said. "His programs are among the most popular and informative that the State Bar makes available to its members, and have been invaluable in helping them satisfy their CLE obligations in that regard."
     In January, Cohen and Professor Michael Berch of the College of Law, in cooperation with the Bar, offered a series of courses on ethics and professionalism that were open to law students and, for CLE, to practicing lawyers.
     Cohen has served on the Bar's CLE committee for years and its Board of Legal Specialization, and teaches more than 30 CLE programs nationally every year. He also is a pro tem judge in Maricopa County Superior Court and serves as a settlement judge for that court, as well as for the Nevada Supreme Court.
     Cohen said he was flattered by McAuliffe's award.
     "I believe there is great value and usefulness in presenting education programs that may help other lawyers with their practices and in helping lawyers keep an eye out for themselves on ethics and professionalism issues, which is the real conscious-raising goal of my ethics programs," he said. "I would like to believe the programs make a positive contribution to the Bar, and I am very happy to be able to help."
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