Originally from Hamilton, Ohio, Edward Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Cincinnati in 1976 as that college's first-ever graduate in the area of Linguistics. Mr. Cohen pursued further graduate studies at Indiana University where he obtained a Masters Degree in Speech and Language Pathology and again at The University of Cincinnati, where he was an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow in 1978-79. He received a scholarship to the The University of Cincinnati College of Law, from where he graduated in 1982. As a law student, Mr. Cohen was Director of the Moot Court Board and was winner of the Giles Sutherland Rich Patent Law Competition, representing the University in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Following graduation, Mr. Cohen was a Visiting Instructor in Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1982, as well as to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He also previously worked as an attorney with the Cincinnati law firms of Goodman & Goodman Co., L.P.A. and Kondritzer, Gold & Frank Co., L.P.A.

Mr. Cohen was chairman of the Workers' Compensation Committee of the Cincinnati Bar Association in 1992-93 and is also a member of the Social Security Committee and the Joint Committee with the Academy of Medicine of the CBA. His practice concentrates in the areas of workers' compensation law, personal injury law, medical and legal malpractice, social security disability and civil appeals. He is rated "A.V." by the Martindale Hubbell Directory of Lawyers. Some significant cases which Mr. Cohen  has handled include Mahin, Administrator v. State Farm Insurance Company (establishing claimant's rights to uninsured/underinsured motorists benefits in Ohio), Flora v. Cincinnati Milacron (affirming a claimant's right to appeal certain denials of benefits by the Industrial Commission), Estate of Rickey Steely, dec'd v. Boweil (supporting the rights of survivors to death benefits in a workers' compensation claim) and many others challenging the Industrial Commission's denials of permanent total disability benefits.

Mr. Cohen lives in Hyde Park with His wife, Dee Ann Bryll, and his children, Dan and Briana and has been active for the past 20 years in the Greater Cincinnati area as an actor and director in live theatre.