Mark I. Cohen began his legal career in 1985 as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of The Honorable Mario Merola, Bronx County District Attorney, where he served as a trial attorney in the White Collar Crime, Rackets and Investigation Division. Thereafter, Mr. Cohen was an associate attorney with Mound Cotton & Wollan, a prestigious litigation firm in Manhattan where he handled a variety of complex fraud matters and defended international corporations and criminal defendants. He received his B.A. in 1982 from State University of New York at Binghamton, and his J.D. in 1985 from Hofstra University.