Confirmed by the unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate on October 5, 2009, George H. Cohen was sworn in as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service on October 8, 2009. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 6, 2009.
Director Cohen has had an extensive and distinguished career as a labor lawyer, negotiator, and mediator. During the period 1966-2005 he was a senior partner at Bredhoff & Kaiser, a Washington, D.C. law firm with a national practice, specializing in representing private and public sector labor organizations in collective bargaining involving a wide variety of industries and government entities. Prior to entering into private practice, the Director served as an appellate court attorney with the National Labor Relations Board. He is a graduate of Cornell University and its Law School and earned a LLM degree from Georgetown Law. In the past three years he has been engaged in a solo practice as a mediator. He is a member of the prestigious Mediation Panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and has successfully mediated numerous, complex, high-profile disputes. From the mid-1970s through 2005, the Director was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School where he taught the Art of Collective Bargaining and other labor courses.
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