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Mansfield Tanick & Cohen Attorney named as one of the "Top 40 Estate Planning and Probate Attorneys"

Mansfield Tanick & Cohen congratulates attorney Earl H. Cohen on being named one of Minnesota Law & Politics Super Lawyers' "Top 40 Estate Planning and Probate Attorneys" for 2008. This is the third consecutive year that Mr. Cohen has received this high honor.

Mr. Cohen is CEO, managing shareholder and chair of the Business Practice Group of Mansfield Tanick & Cohen, joining the firm in 1990. In 1973, he joined the Trust Development Department of Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, now Wells Fargo Bank. In 1976, Mr. Cohen entered private practice, until joining Mansfield Tanick & Cohen.

Mr. Cohen focuses his practice in the broad areas of estate and wealth transfer planning, business and asset protection planning, and estate administration. He assists individual and business clients with the organization, operation and, when necessary, financial reorganization of their business and/or individual interests. Mr. Cohen regularly advises professional business clients on asset protection strategies as part of their estate and business plans and fiduciaries and beneficiaries on their obligations and rights. Mr. Cohen serves as counsel and special advisor to businesses ranging from food production to high tech computer manufacturing and software. From 1978-1986 Mr. Cohen served as Chairman for Kensington Properties, Inc., a full-service real estate development and management company specializing in property rehabilitation and secondary markets with successful developments throughout the Upper Midwest and North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri. Mr. Cohen has served on the Board of Directors of United Systems Technology, Inc., a publicly-traded software development firm in Dallas, Texas, since 1995.

Mr. Cohen is an honors graduate from the University of Minnesota with a degree in business administration and a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. Mr. Cohen can be reached at 612-339-4295, or via email at ecohen@mansfieldtanick.com.