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About Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen is a founding partner of the New York-based law firm Pollock Cohen LLP. His practice focusses on public impact litigation including False Claims Act whistleblower cases and plaintiff-side class actions. He is perhaps best known for two recent cases: his successful representation of 230,000 municipal retirees against City Hall, which has resulted in $1.8 billion in relief for his clients; and for representing actors against an AI-driven tech company which has unlawfully cloned and sold their voices.

Steve’s practice epitomizes the intersection of law, policy, and journalism – with the realities of politics thrown in for good measure. For 35 years before going to law school, Steve was a successful publishing executive—including at Time and Scholastic—best-selling author, and the CEO of three internet start-ups.

A business executive, Steve was the creator and executive producer of Time Magazine’s Man of the Year television documentaries; co-creator and producer of Covermaker, developed with IBM, which was one of the first educational computer games; creator and publisher of the Time College Achievement Awards; and winner of two Clio Awards. As an entrepreneur, he was founder and CEO of 4-to-14.com / Brainquest; CEO of Living Independently (later sold to General Electric); and CEO of Multimedicus/The Child Health Guide, in partnership with Harvard and Dartmouth Medical Schools. The Child Health Guide was the winner of the 2008 Magazine Publishers Association’s Best Web Resource.

Steve is the author of seven books—including three best-sellers—and more than 250 articles and editorials. He was the first person ever to have Op-Ed articles in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the same day.

Steve attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, graduated from Brown University, from New York Law School, cum laude, and completed the Senior Executives in National and International Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He co-chaired Hillary Clinton’s White House Task Force (the “Prescription for Reading Partnership” on early childhood literacy,) served 12 years on the Board of Reach Out and Read, and for ten years was a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Naval Institute.

Steve and his wife live in Manhattan and have two grown sons: one a screenwriter in Los Angeles and the other a United States Marine.