Current Employment Position(s)

Legal Director

Lawyer Overview

Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy. Cindy first became involved with EFF over seven years ago, when EFF asked her to serve as the lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice , the successful federal court challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. That case was the first to hold that source code was protected expression and subject to protection under the First Amendment . Cindy is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School . She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa and the London School of Economics . For ten years prior to joining EFF, she was a civil litigator in private practice handling Internet-related cases, including domain name disputes, suits arising from unsolicited commercial e-mail (also known as spam), and challenges to government efforts to gather information from Internet Service Providers about their customers. Before starting private practice, she worked for a year at the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1997, as a result of her work on the Bernstein case, Ms. Cohn was named as one of the "Lawyers of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine.

Bar Admissions

California, 1989
U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1989

Education

The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Address

454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Phones

(415) 436-9333 (Ext. 108)

Faxes

(415) 436-9993

Emails

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Websites

http://www.eff.org