Gary I. Cohen

Gary I. Cohen is a family and matrimonial lawyer in Stamford, Connecticut, with the Law Offices of Gary I. Cohen, P.C. His work includes representing individuals in divorce litigation, and his family-law practice encompasses both trial and appellate courts. The firm lists legal separation, property division and alimony among its services, as well as child support, custody and visitation matters.

Litigation is not the only subject Cohen addresses in the firm’s account of his work. He describes settlement as preferable to trial when both parties act from informed, rational self-interest. In that same account, he speaks of representing people whose family difficulties involve financial, emotional and psychological concerns alongside legal ones.

Cohen earned his undergraduate degree at Yale and his Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia. At Virginia, he edited articles for the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. His firm biography describes a Connecticut legal career of more than 50 years, most of it devoted to family and matrimonial matters.

His professional association work includes helping establish the American College of Family Trial Lawyers. He has served as president of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and of the Connecticut chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. The biography also identifies him as a Charter Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. His firm’s Stamford office is on Summer Street, in Suite 300 at number 1100.