Miriam S. Kohn

Miriam Kohn represents employers in a broad range of labor and employment matters, including workplace discrimination claims, arbitrations under collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and the Railway Labor Act (RLA), and other disputes involving federal agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Miriam maintains an active pro bono practice that includes working on initiatives to help survivors of human trafficking and sexual violence, representing clients facing eviction through the District of Columbia Bar's Housing Right to Counsel Project, and providing on-the-ground legal support for Jones Day's Border Project, which provides guidance and legal representation to individuals with claims for asylum or other forms of immigration relief who have been taken into immigration custody in South Texas. Miriam's recent representations include the successful defense of a major nonprofit health care provider in a labor arbitration.

Before joining Jones Day, Miriam served as a law clerk to Judge Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Judge Douglas R. Cole of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Prior to law school, Miriam was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Vientiane, Laos and worked at a company offering extracurricular speech and debate classes in Shanghai, China.