Howard C. Cohen & Associates
2 lawyers · City of Toronto
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 455 handling Criminal Defence.
2 lawyers · City of Toronto
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 455 handling Criminal Defence.
Howard C. Cohen & Associates is a small Toronto firm that combines criminal defence with civil litigation. Founder and senior lawyer Howard C. Cohen has held the Law Society of Ontario's Certified Specialist in Criminal Law designation for close to 20 years, and the firm says its two lawyers bring more than 40 years of combined experience to their work. Cohen's criminal defence career goes back to the late 1970s and has included drug prosecutions built on wiretap evidence, along with matters involving homicide, robbery, and major fraud charges.
Cohen practices alongside Avin Persad-Ford, who joined the firm in August 2015 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2023. Persad-Ford's background includes degrees in commerce, forensic accountancy, and international tax law, certifications as a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Executor Advisor, and ongoing study toward a Master of Taxation at the University of Waterloo. In 2022, Persad-Ford published an article on the jurisdiction of criminal law in outer space in the LSE Law Review.
The firm's core idea is that a single set of facts can trigger criminal charges and a civil, administrative, or regulatory matter at the same time, from a workplace investigation tied to a dismissal to an insurance dispute tied to a fraud charge, and that one team handling both can save clients from retaining separate lawyers for each side of the same case.
A designation granted by the Law Society of Ontario, not a self-declared area of focus.
Howard C. Cohen & Associates is in the Northern Ontario Building at 330 Bay Street, a heritage listed office building in Toronto's Bay Street corridor. It went up in 1925, designed by Chapman and Oxley. It's a Classical Revival high rise that was substantially renovated in 1982, when a stepped addition was built onto the north side and part of the old Savarin Tavern's facade was worked into the new structure.
That's downtown finance and office country rather than a courthouse block, which suits a firm whose civil docket runs through professional negligence, tax evasion, and insurance disputes as much as it runs through criminal defence.
330 Bay Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S8 · 416-364-7436
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