Profile of Michigan Divorce Attorney Susan E. Cohen

Bloomfield Hills lawyer providing practical guidance

Susan E. Cohen graduated from Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills and received her bachelor's degree from Hillsdale College. Upon earning a master's degree in counseling, she returned to the Kingswood School and worked as a teacher, counselor and Assistant Director of Admissions. She took great professional satisfaction in helping families solve complex problems and make challenging decisions.

Ms. Cohen decided to become a lawyer with the specific intent of providing quality representation to Michigan families in crisis. She received her law degree from the University of Detroit in 1992 and opened her family law practice in Bloomfield Hills the following year. Her experience as a counselor readily translated into her role as a skilled attorney who helps families resolve conflict through negotiation, mediation, arbitration — and trial, only if necessary.

Throughout her career she has been active in numerous professional organizations, including the family law sections of the Michigan and Oakland County bar associations and the Governor's Task Force on Children's Justice. Ms. Cohen is an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and a Certified Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating^SM from Martindale-Hubbell®.

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Areas of practice

Admitted

• Michigan, 1992

Education

• University of Detroit, J.D., 1992
• Oakland University, M.A. in Counseling, 1981
• Hillsdale College, B.S., 1978

Professional memberships

• Oakland County Bar Association
  • Family Law Committee Chairman, 2001 – 2002
• State Bar of Michigan
  • Family Law Section
    • Council, 1999 – 2002
  • Co-Chairman, Continuing Legal Education, 2000 – 2002

• American Inns of Court
  • Barrister, 1997 – 1999

Positions held

• Adjunct professor, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, 2009 – present
• Certified Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
• Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation
• Fellow, Oakland County Bar Foundation
• Trustee, Michigan Inter-Professional Association on Marriage, Divorce and the Family, 1994
• Co-Chair, Oakland County Bench Bar Conference Family Law Section, 2002
• Appointed, Governor's Task Force on Children's Justice, 2002

Awards and honors

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated^SM by Martindale-Hubbell®
• Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™
• Michigan Super Lawyers, 2007 – 2010
• Top Lawyers 2010, dbusiness

Continuing legal education seminars

• "Strategies for Imputation of Income for Child Support and Spousal Support, Validity of Agreement to be Bound by Friend of the Court Hearing Outcome," Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2004 and AAML, 2003
• "Child Related Issues,'' Oakland County Bar Association, 2002
• "Litigation Strategies in Fault Cases,'' State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section, 2002
• "The 100 Mile Rule, The Fifth Amendment and Privileged Communications,'' Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2001

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