Debra S. Cohen

Debra S. Cohen is the co-chair of the Civil Rights Practice Group of Newman Ferrara LLP. Ms. Cohen practices in both federal and state courts in New York, at both the trial and appellate level, focusing on a wide variety of civil rights issues including: police misconduct, sex and gender identity discrimination, child abuse and open government violations. For over twenty years Ms. Cohen has been an adjunct professor at Pace University’s Haub School of Law teaching courses in civil rights law and civil rights litigation.