Cohen attended the University of California, Berkley and earned a BS in Business Administration in 1996. He used introductions from Goonies director, Richard Donner, to get summer jobs on the business side of movie studios, and from this work chose to pursue a career in law as he uncovered that many of the important figures on the business side of Hollywood had law degrees. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2000 and later became an entertainment attorney in Los Angeles. He founded Cohen & Gardner in Beverly Hills and has achieved great success. He was named one of Hollywood’s “Top 35 Executives 35 and Under” and was also named in Variety’s “Dealmakers Impact Report” in 2013. As of February 2014, he periodically writes about business, legal, and political matters for the Huffington Post and CNBC.