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H. Cohn Obituary
1955-2021
H. Miles Cohn passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Phyllis Rowe Cohn, his two sons, Jeremy Micah Cohn and Alexander Warren Cohn, and their wives, Elissa Miller Cohn and Katherine Bergez Cohn, respectively.
Miles practiced law for over 40 years in Houston and was known for his integrity, compassion, and humility. He will be dearly missed.
A graveside service will be held on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 2:00 PM at Emanu El Memorial Park, 8341 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77074.
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Karen A. Wyle
January 7, 2023
I've been answering memoir prompts lately and remembered the following. Miles and I were in a group of a few law school friends who went out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant one winter evening. Miles didn't have a very warm jacket on. When we got to the restaurant, Miles ordered the hot and sour soup. It proved to be VERY spicy, but Miles didn't want to admit he found it challenging to eat, and toughed it out. Later, we walked home through part of Cambridge and across campus, Miles in his inadequate outerwear. Quite abruptly, he said, "It IS cold. [pause] The soup WAS hot."
Nikhil Jain
January 12, 2022
So so sorry to hear this. I had been his client for 15+ years and he was a gem to work with. This is an immense loss, he indeed has left a legacy behind him..about his work, about his virtues and values and about being such a good soul ...rest in peace dear Miles.
Dr. Tom O´Brien
November 14, 2021
He was such a wonderful person. He will be dearly missed by so many. I am blessed to have known him.
Paul Clote
November 13, 2021
The entire Houston legal community will miss Miles - his brilliant legal mind; extraordinary problem solving expertise; an ability to see around corners; his very calm but firm and professional demeanor; his dry sense of humor. A lawyer's lawyer. An example to all.
Leslye Dicken
November 12, 2021
So sorry for your loss, Phyllis... sending you love at this most difficult time.
Jeff Barab
November 11, 2021
I was heartbroken to hear of your loss, Phyllis. My deepest sympathy to you and your kids. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Susan Rosenberg
November 11, 2021
Singing songs from your wedding in my heart. Your happy memories will be warm companions as his memory will be a blessing. I shared news with Marie.
Jamal Asmatullah
November 11, 2021
Always helpful, thoughtful, kind, empathetic, and willing to help, Miles was both my attorney, and a friend. I will miss his friendship and professional discussions. A pleasure to have worked with him, and to have known him, albeit it was too brief. I'm truly very sorry for your loss & offer my deepest condolences. May his soul rest in peace.
Elizabeth
November 11, 2021
I never met Miles in person, but he was our attorney for over a decade, and I had many conversations with him--the last being several weeks ago. As a credit to his professionalism, I cannot think of anything over the past four years, when he worked with us intensively, that seemed off. Miles was an uncommonly good lawyer and a very good man. I feel that we have lost a friend, and my husband and I will miss him dearly. We want the family to know that our thoughts remain with them in this devastatingly sad time. We will not forget him.
Ashley Kaper
November 11, 2021
I had the pleasure of working with Miles briefly. He was always so thoughtful and wiling to give his time. I'm so very sorry for your loss. I feel lucky to have met him.
Trey Monsour
November 11, 2021
Miles, you will be missed.
Bill Dyer
November 11, 2021
In the chambers library of Judge Carolyn D. Randall (later King)'s co-clerks in 1980-1981:
Miles Cohn (JD Harvard), Kathryn Vanderbeck Smyser (JD Texas), and me, Bill Dyer (JD Texas).
William J Dyer
November 11, 2021
I'm sad to read the news of the passing of Miles Cohn, a lifetime friend. With our co-clerk Kathryn Smyser, Miles & I were sworn into the Texas Bar by our then-employer, Judge Carolyn Randall (later King), of the Fifth Circuit. We worked elbow-to-elbow for a year, and so I can and hereby do testify from extended personal knowledge that Miles was a brilliant lawyer, a superb and passionate advocate, and a deeply ethical professional.
Over two weeks at judicial clerkship's end in the summer of 1981, Miles & I drove the length and width of Great Britain in a rental car. Among our adventures was a breakdown in a tiny town on the border between England & Scotland, a place called Lockerbie where we were obliged to spend a weekend. It was not quite exactly, yet quite a bit like, spending a weekend in a real-life Brigadoon. There were no more than a small handful of pubs in the town, each of which we visited and got acquainted with its regulars (think "Cheers" but with a Scottish brogue). We all sang along when our new friends punched up, on their jukeboxes, some classic American country-western music, the lyrics to which they all knew by heart. Upon learning we were Texans, the locals quizzed us relentlessly for our opinions on "Who REALLY shot J.R. Ewing?" (We were both therefore stricken when tiny Lockerbie made the news in 1988 as the crash-site of the Pan Am 103 bombing.)
Our trip began and ended, appropriately enough, in London. Miles had a definite agenda with which I was tickled to tag along. We visited one of the Oxford (or was it Cambridge?) colleges he had some prior connection to, and we browsed old booksellers shops for old law books and maps. We also spent a morning at the Old Bailey watching a pair of superb barristers trying a defamation case, and we got ourselves invited to lunch thereafter by one side's supporting solicitors. Among the subjects discussed: the provenance of barristers' and judges' wigs - and how it was actually a badge of great honor and pride for them to resemble two-century-old indiscriminate animal carcasses that had been badly maintained yet cherished.
In later years we bumped into each other from time to time at the Harris County Civil Courthouse. Time permitting, we'd swap some of our newer trial lawyer war stories or, failing that, revisit some older ones. Like all effective advocates, Miles knew how to tell a story properly.
Rest in peace, my friend and brother-at-the-bar.
Elisa Emebo
November 10, 2021
Praying for Peace, Strength, and Courage during this time. Miles was kind, patient, smart, quick thinker, and I would love to chat with him just to hear his voice again. May God provide peace & understanding to his family during this time like only He can. I'll greatly miss Miles!
Karen Klein Levine
November 10, 2021
Phyllis - sending hugs your way in this difficult time.
Raquel Koff
November 10, 2021
We were so sorry to hear about your husband... my condolences and prayers go out to your family
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