Biography
Dale Cohen is an experienced media lawyer, executive and educator currently serving as Director of the Documentary Film Legal Clinic at UCLA School of Law and as Special Counsel for FRONTLINE, PBS's award-winning documentary series. Dale has long and happily grappled with media law and related issues as in-house counsel, as a litigator and as a professor. Prior to his current positions, Dale served as Vice-President-Administration for Radio Free Europe in Prague. Dale has also worked in legal and executive positions at Cox Enterprises, Tribune Company and NPR.
Before going in-house, Dale was a litigation partner concentrating in media, first amendment law and intellectual property for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (now Denton’s) in Chicago. Dale has also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, Emory University, the Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is a co-author of Media and the Law (2d Ed.) (LexisNexis).