Mr. Cohen served as President and CEO of Buchalter from 2002 to 2013. Prior to his retirement in 2020, he was a Shareholder in the firm's Los Angeles office, where he specialized in a wide range of corporate, partnership, and securities matters, with a particular emphasis on securities issues addressing the unique challenges faced by investment advisors.

Mr. Cohen served as Special Counsel to California State Controller Kenneth Cory and as the Chief Executive Officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, which was then the eighth largest pension fund in the United States, with assets in excess of $12 billion.

In 2017, Mr. Cohen was named the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. In addition, Mr. Cohen, who is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell, has been selected as one of Southern California's Super Lawyers seven times from 2005 to 2011 and was also selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition in 2009.

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• UCLA School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, 1977
• Pomona College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1974

• Buchalter COVID-19 Client Alert: San Francisco Moves to Lowest COVID Tier in California, Begins Process of Reopening Non-Essential Offices; Other Bay Area Counties Slower to Follow

  By Rick Cohen |November 2020