'22 Lawyer Judged "Tireless"

Last spring ALI-ABA, the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, celebrated the longterm contribution of Haskell Cohn '22, who "has worked tirelessly and effectively to enhance the competence of the legal profession." The ABA, of course, has about 300,000 members, while ALI comprises only 2,000 judges, law professors, and practicing lawyers all nominated and elected after careful scrutiny. Cohn has served since 1965 as one of the two dozen members of ALIABA's Committee on Continuing Professional Education and as chairman of its peer review committee. A year ago he chaired a major conference for the group on peer review.

The honor he received and his continuing activity in his profession—should be no surprise to his classmates, or others who know him. He's been actively lawyering for 63 years, having earned his LL.B. from Harvard in 1925. Early on Cohn was associated with the Boston firm of Hale and Dorr where, he says, he "carried the briefcase of Joseph N. Welch," who became a TV hero 20 years later when he took op Sen. Joe McCarthy.

In 1933 Cohn established a partnership with Ben Levin, a friend from law school. Today the firm is known as Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., with some 135 lawyers in its Boston and Washington offices.

Over the years Cohn has served his profession in a variety of ways, such as vice chairman of the ABA's estate and gift tax committee and president (1969-71) of the Boston Bar Association. He's also found time to serve his community and his alma maters. From 1956-71 he was on the board of the Boston YMCA, and he has been president of both the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Greater Boston and the Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts. At the moment Haskell Cohn isn't exactly taking on a whole lot of new cases, but...