Nov. 12, 2020
An extraordinary and influential California Supreme Court staff attorney
A Brooklyn native who was raised in Queens and had attended college and law school on the east coast, Hal had no inkling that his one-year clerkship would turn into a lifetime career with the court in San Francisco.
Jake Dear
Chief Supervising Attorney
California Supreme Court
Harold Cohen -- Hal, as the justices and staff of the California Supreme Court have known him for more than five decades -- drove with his wife, Inez, from New York City to San Francisco right after their marriage. It was June 1969, and he was to start a clerkship with Justice Mathew Tobriner. A Brooklyn native who was raised in Queens and had attended college and law school on the east coast, Hal had no inkling that his one-year Tobriner clerkship would turn into a l...
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