Susannah R. Cohen

Susannah R. Cohen is an Associate at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight.

Susannah received her law degree from Columbia Law School and her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Columbia University. While at Columbia Law School, Susannah was a James Kent Scholar and won the Pauline Berman Heller Prize for her outstanding record of academic achievement in the service of gender equality.  She was a Max Berger ’71 Public Interest/Public Service Fellow, served as a notes editor for the Columbia Law Review, and published her note, “Redefining What It Means to Discriminate Because of Sex: Bostock’s Equal Protection Implications,” in the Columbia Law Review.  While a Columbia undergraduate, Susannah graduated with Departmental Honors in American studies and wrote her senior thesis on the history of the Equal Rights Amendment during the New Deal era.

Before joining Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, Susannah completed a clerkship for the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Prior to her clerkship, Susannah was a law clerk at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, where she gained substantial experience in employment law and white-collar investigations.

When Susannah is not lawyering, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and exploring New York City.