Network of Bar Leaders welcomes Michael Kohan as new president in upcoming ceremony

The Network of Bar Leaders is set to host its Installation Reception and Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 29, at the Vista LIC Hotel in Queens. Co-sponsored by the New Rochelle Bar Association, the evening will feature an induction ceremony of Michael Kohan as President of the Network.

Kohan, a distinguished member of the Queens Bar Association, brings a wealth of experience and achievement to his new role. A graduate of Queens College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Kohan went on to Hofstra University School of Law, where he not only emerged as a New York State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers’ Section, statewide Trial Team champion, but also had the privilege of studying under the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The owner of the Kohan Law Group, a boutique civil litigation firm, he serves on the Court’s Committee on Character and Fitness, to which he was first appointed in 2018 by the presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, and reappointed in 2022.

Kohan is a dedicated volunteer, offering his services to Legally Links, a nonprofit organization aiding the needy, and regularly speaking at a legal housing clinic in Woodside, Queens. His has given continuing legal education lectures, mostly in the areas of landlord-tenant law and real estate litigation.