About Diana
Diana Cohn built a legal foundation that began in the classroom and continued straight into courtrooms. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University in 2008 and completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Florida in 2011. Those years shaped how she approaches cases: attention to people and an eye for procedure.
Her early legal work was hands-on from the start. In 2009 she worked as a legal clerk at Rissman, Barrett, Hurt, Donahue & McLain, P.A., gaining exposure to civil practice and firm operations. The next year she served as a judicial clerk in Florida’s Eighth Judicial Court, Family Law Division. That role placed her on the family-court side of proceedings and offered a close view of how judges handle custody, dependency, and other family matters.
Also in 2010 she worked at the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic (IPVAC). There she assisted clients dealing with domestic violence issues. The experience added a client-facing, advocacy dimension to her background. In 2011 she moved into a leadership role at Children’s Legal Services as a managing lawyer. That position involved supervising cases and representing children and families in dependency and protective proceedings.
After several years in public-sector and clinic settings, she moved into private practice. In 2018 she became a shareholder at Cohn Slater, P.A. At the firm she has taken on casework that often touches on the same areas she worked in earlier: family-related disputes, child welfare matters and domestic-violence cases. Colleagues describe her as steady in court and attentive with clients; her record reflects steady involvement in family and juvenile matters rather than a broad commercial docket.
She is admitted to practice in Florida and has maintained professional association memberships since 2011. Those memberships have accompanied her through courtrooms, legal clinics and firm practice. Her path shows a mix of courtroom experience, public-interest work and firm-based representation.
Cohn’s career has been a sequence of roles that connect: psychology studies, clerkships and clinics, public-child-welfare work, and then firm leadership. She continues to practice at Cohn Slater, P.A., handling family-law matters, child welfare cases and proceedings related to domestic violence.
