Michael S. Cohen

From the instant I first saw the hashtag #MeToo on Twitter, I had a sense that my professional life might get busy to a degree I had never experienced.

I am an employment lawyer who has spent the better part of the past decade building a practice, the centerpiece of which has been conducting human resources and employment law trainings for organizations of all kinds. The importance of harassment prevention was going to be at the forefront not only for HR professionals (a place it had existed for some time), but finally also for executives and directors.

For each city I have traveled to since 2018 — and by my count that is roughly 100 — my 11-year-old daughter has photoshopped a picture of me in my Philadelphia Eagles T-shirt next to something unique about city to which I’m traveling.

For Detroit, it was a picture of Eminem and me on 8 Mile Road. In Irvine, California, I stood with the cast of the television show “The OC.” And, of course when in Washington, D.C., it was “the other” Michael Cohen and me in front of the Jefferson Memorial, with the hashtag #ImNotThatMichaelCohen. In other words, while travel can be difficult, I’ve been trying to have some fun with all the time I spend on the road.

The purpose of all of these hours, days and weeks on the road has been and remains to be critically important. Since the beginning of 2018, I have conducted more than 350 harassment prevention trainings for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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