NEWTON, MA, June 01, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Andrew Howard Cohn is a celebrated Marquis Who's Who biographee. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name Dr. Cohn a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Dr. Cohn celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field.
About Dr. Andrew Howard Cohn
A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Dr. Cohn presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative, Inc., a not-for-profit energy and utility consortium of Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Joslin Diabetes Center.
Dr. Cohn attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a BA (History Honors) and Harvard University, where he received a PhD (Social Anthropology), was a V.O. Key Jr. Fellow at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, a predoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health , a teaching fellow (Urban Anthropology; Personality and the Social System), and researcher at the University College, Nairobi and Limuru, Kenya. While at Harvard, Dr. Cohn also received two research awards, one from IBM and the other from The Ford Foundation.
A 1975 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was Note and Project Editor of the Yale Law Journal, a Russell Sage Foundation Fellow in Law and Social Science, and advisor to the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee, his first legal role was that of law clerk to Judge Edward M. McEntee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then served as an associate with Hill and Barlow before joining Hale and Dorr, predecessor to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale) where he was a senior partner in its Real Estate and Energy Groups from 1986 to late 2015. He also served on the firm's Executive Committee (1988-91) and as Chair of the Executive Committee (1990-91).
Dr. Cohn has maintained an ongoing engagement with issues impacting urban, indigent populations. His public service (pro bono) activities have intersected with these concerns and include serving on the Boston Bar Association's Public Service Committee, which runs the "Lawyer-for-a-Day" Program in the Boston Housing Courts (with over 15,500 pro se litigants served by volunteer attorneys). His work with the committee was recognized with the BBA Pro Bono Award in 2014 for fifteen years of leadership, including serving as co-chair of its Public Service Committee. Mr. Cohn's involvement with the Volunteer Lawyers Project - the Greater Boston subgrantee of the U.S. Legal Services Corporation, saw him providing pro bono referral counsel for indigent persons and families needing legal representatives. Additionally, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors and Co-chair of its Intake Committee.
Another organization he supports is 826 Boston, Inc., a youth literacy and writing program for students ages 6-18 in Boston public schools. 826 Boston is affiliated with 826 National, which was founded by novelist Dave Eggers and other writers. Dr. Cohn serves as a founding board member (2007-present) and served as pro bono counsel (2007-15). He also served as a mentor for The Boston Lawyer Group , impacting the lives of minority law students, and as an advisory board member of Justiserv, an organization founded by law professors, judges and legal practitioners to use improved internet-based intake procedure to facilitate civil representation referrals to non-indigent, lower income people, with special focus on design of web-based screening questionnaires.
Dr. Cohn is a member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, and the Policy and Research Committee of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board. He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of The Toynbee Prize Foundation, which began as a program for recognizing distinguished scholars who had made outstanding contributions to the social sciences and to human welfare. He was also a member of the Guggenheim Program in Criminal Justice while at Yale Law School.
As part of his legal work, and particularly his public service activities, he has written numerous reports and memoranda on policy issues, and made presentations to a wide range of professional and non-professional groups.
Dr. Cohn has been featured in a number of Marquis Who's Who publications, including Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America. He is also listed in current editions of The Best Lawyers in America (2015: Energy and Real Estate).
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Cohn has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit http://whoswholifetimeachievers.com/2017/03/03/andrew-howard-cohn/ to view this distinguished honor.
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