Mark Cohen has 36 years of experience as a lawyer. He earned a B.A.in Economics at  Whitman College and earned his law degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  He earned an LL.M. Agricultural and Food Law from the University of Arkansas, where he also taught advanced legal writing.  His diverse legal career includes service as an Air Force JAG, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, a prosecutor, a municipal judge for Boulder, six years on the Advisory Board The Colorado Lawyer (including one as chairperson), and service on the Executive Board of the  Colorado Municipal League.  Mark has represented clients in more than one hundred jury trials.

Mark's amusing paper, How to Draft a Bad Contract, first published in The Colorado Lawyer has been republished in several journals and won praise from Harvard Professor Steven Pinker. Mark is the current editor of the contract law column for The Colorado Lawyer.  He founded the nonprofit Plain English Institute. 

Mark wrote six articles in the Am. Jur. Proof of Facts series, including the seminal article on piercing the corporate veil. He has written numerous articles and book reviews for  The Colorado Lawyer.  In 2004, he won 2nd prize in the SEAK National Legal Fiction Writing Competition. He wrote two mysteries published by Time Warner, and his first mystery, The Fractal Murders became a Book Sense ® mystery pick and were a finalist for the Colorado Book of the Year.  His non-legal articles have appeared in magazines such as Inside Kung Fu, Camping & RV, and Modern Dad. He is a member of the Institute of General Semantics and the Mystery Writers of America. He writes a regular column for the Nederland Mountain-Ear.

Mark’s practice focuses on drafting and reviewing legal documents including contracts, corporate documents, real estate documents, employment documents, intellectual property documents, motions, pleadings, and briefs.  He also litigates cases arising out of poorly drafted documents. He enjoys helping businesses and other lawyers improve their legal and non-legal documents by translating them from Legalese into plain English.

Mark holds a black belt in karate and serves on the board of directors of Dart, Inc., a Boulder non-profit that offers training in personal safety, violence prevention, and appropriate dating relationships.