Lawrence Edwin Kahn (born December 8, 1937) is an American attorney serving as a

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United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Education and career

Kahn was born in Troy, New York. He graduated from Union College with an

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degree in 1959 and

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with a

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in 1962. He studied at Oxford University and then practiced law with his brother in Albany, New York, from 1963 to 1973. Kahn was also Albany's Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1963 to 1968. Kahn served as an Albany County Surrogate Court Judge from 1973 to 1979. In 1980, Kahn became a justice of the

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, on which he served until 1996. Since 1990, Kahn has served as an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, where he teaches courses on

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in state and federal courts.

Federal judicial service

President Bill Clinton nominated Kahn to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York on April 18, 1996, to fill the seat vacated by

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. Kahn was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 16, 1996, and received his commission on August 1, 1996. Kahn assumed senior status on August 1, 2007.

Selected publications

*Kahn, Lawrence E. ''When Couples Part: How the Legal System Can Work for You.'' New York: Franklin Watts, 1981. *Kahn, Robert W. & Lawrence E. Kahn, ''The Divorce Lawyers' Casebook.'' New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972.

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