A Manhattan Commercial Division judge encouraged commercial lawyers to consider the Court of Claims as a route to judicial service. He said the path is more attainable than expected and described a system in which Court of Claims judges are regularly appointed to other parts of the state Supreme Court. After working as a trial lawyer on antitrust and intellectual property matters, he was appointed to the Court of Claims by the governor in 2018 and later designated an Acting Supreme Court Justice. He urged experienced commercial bar members to consider devoting later career years to joining the judiciary and offered to connect lawyers with colleagues who pursued the standard judicial election process. He emphasized the Court of Claims, where judges are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate.
"“I'm here to urge a more direct way to pay it back and to pay it forward that is, for at least a few of you experienced members of the commercial bar to consider devoting the latter portion of your careers to joining the judiciary,” he said, addressing the lawyers in the audience. “There are ways to make that happen that you may not know about.”"
"Cohen used his remarks in a room of lawyers and judicial colleagues to spread the word of the makeshift appointment system through which Court of Claims Judges are regularly appointed to other parts of the state Supreme Court. He said he would be happy to connect lawyers to colleagues of his who undertook an effort to get on the Supreme Court bench through the normal process of running in a judicial election, but he focused his remarks instead on the state Court of Claims."
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