Attorney Harry Cohen has achieved a remarkable place in his home town of New Milford, Connecticut as an aggressive, successful trial lawyer as well as a leader in civic and cultural affairs.

Born in September 2, 1920 of immigrant parents, attorney Cohen attended the local public schools achieved a B.A. degree from Colby College and a Doctor of Law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1942. He immediately entered the armed forces and served as Lieutenant Platoon Leader in the 90th division of General George S. Patton's Third Army in the European theater. He was awarded the combat infantry badge and three bronze campaign medals.

He began the practice of law in his growing home town of New Milford in 1946, where he quickly earned a reputation as a fighter for just but difficult causes. The late Connecticut Supreme Court Justice T. Clark Hull referred to Atty. Cohen as "a fighter of lost causes." Several years ago he won a landmark wrongful death case in the Waterbury superior court in which the jury awarded his client a substantial sum of money against the parents of a thirty two year old son for allowing their son to maintain guns on the premises he occupied, owned by them, knowing of his dangerous propensities to do harm.

More recently Atty. Cohen became something of a folk hero in the quaint town of Roxbury for achieving a substantial settlement for a loyal and trusted maid servant of a wealthy resident who awarded his client with a legacy of $100,000 in her will, in which the executor and attorney for the estate attempted to deprive her of her legacy claiming there was insufficient assets by reason of estate taxes.

Atty. Cohen organized the first New Milford Bar Association and became its first president. He served as commander of his home town chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars and was instrumental in the post acquiring land and in construction of a building for its activities. He was one of the founders of the first Jewish Temple in New Milford, where he served as president and he donated a substantial sum of money for its expansion. One of the rooms bears his family name.

In 1960 Atty. Cohen organized and presided over a much needed community wide cultural and recreational organization known as the New Milford Community Center in which the organization induced the town of New Milford to acquire a building on Church Street. This building housed activities ranging from senior citizens to little league baseball and includes a multitude of activities: adult and drivers education, junior league baseball, summer recreation, community theater, and a Community Concert Band lead by guest conductor Leopold Stokowski in a concert on the green.

Atty. Cohen organized and presided over a Little Theater known as Creative Arts Center and he was instrumental in acquiring a building to house the theater and its activities. He organized the New Milford Concert Association which brought to his home town outstanding professional performers and gained the support of maestro Skitch Henderson, a local resident.

In the early nineties, he organized and established the New England School of Photographic Arts and became an avid photo hobbyist.

Concerned over the substantial decline of community values in New Milford, Atty. Cohen, recently established a non-profit corporation: the Cohen Resource Center for Family and Children in which he has donated a substantial sum of money and provided facilities in the Cohen building to help children and families in distress.