A Retrospective of Austin Wolf's Career, Connecticut Law Tribune

A profile of Austin K. Wolf, co-founder of Cohen and Wolf, P.C. appears in the June 23 issue of the Connecticut Law Tribune. "Helping to Build up Bridgeport," by Douglas S. Malan offers a retrospective of Mr. Wolf's career at the firm he co-founded which has grown "from a storefront office in Bridgeport to a 50-lawyer firm with four offices throughout the state."

Mr. Wolf was recently honored with a Career Service award by the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association. "He has grown his firm into one of Bridgeport's finest and is recognized by many as one of the deans of the Connecticut bar for planning and zoning issues," said Douglas P. Mahoney, president of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association.

In his career spanning six decades, Wolf has represented both developers seeking approval for high-profile projects and neighborhood groups opposed to development plans. Mr. Wolf said land use law has become 'infinitely more complicated' since he started his legal career in a two-man office above a Bridgeport hamburger joint in 1951. The firm "turned the corner...in the late 1960's when it attracted large institutional clients such as real estate developers."

A graduate of Yale undergrad and Harvard Law, Mr. Wolf spent time in the Marine Corps where [he] "learned courage, foresight, and the ability to deal with small details and get them right." Those lessons are evident in the impact Wolf has had on the lawyers who have joined the Cohen and Wolf ranks and understood the standard Wolf set, said shareholder Richard Slavin.

"Any Cohen and Wolf lawyer who ever did any assignment for Austin understands how precise his or her work must be and how that projects to the firms' clients," said Slavin. "What Austin created has been institutionalized, not just in the zoning and land use area or real estate, but in a firm that demonstrates, in all of its practice areas, the excellence that he brought [to] his own work."

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