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12 RANDOM THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT…
DAVID K. COHN Compiled by Bakersfield Life Magazine
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avid K. Cohn has been practicing law for nearly 40 years, and today he is one of the most highly regarded personal injury lawyers in Kern County. He’s also a scuba diver, an avid University of Southern California football fan and university alumnus, and a Bakersfield native. But it’s in his practice where Cohn truly shines. In this year’s Best of Bakersfield competition, his firm — Chain | Cohn | Stiles — was voted Best Law Firm and Cohn bears the title of “Super Lawyer” in Southern California, an honor bestowed upon only the top 5 percent of lawyers in the region. Here are a few more random facts about this interesting attorney.
1. Some of my first jobs included making pizzas at Pizzaville, vacuuming cars at Oak Street Car Wash and sweeping out box cars for Santa Fe Railroad. 2. I’ve known David Stiles, my law partner at Chain | Cohn | Stiles, since grade school. We attended Roosevelt Elementary. 3. I once dove down to 210 feet in the South Pacific. I also dove in Malaysia, Borneo, Micronesia and Tahiti. 4. I’ve never learned to type without looking at the keys. 5. I just finished “Catcher in the Rye” for the first time. 6. I proposed to my wife at the top of Half Dome. 7. My favorite food is a freshly grilled ballpark dog with mustard and onions. No ketchup. 8. I don’t like snakes or spiders, but I dove with schooling hammerhead sharks. 9. If I wasn’t a lawyer, I would have been a pilot. 10. My favorite ice cream flavors are peppermint ice milk and rum butter. 11. I’ve practiced law for nearly 40 years and have fought well over 10,000 cases in my career. 12. My favorite movies include “In the Heat of the Night,” “Casablanca,” and “Blade Runner.”
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Bakersfield Life Magazine
May 2014