Michael Schwartz previously served as an Attorney at Cohen Immigration Law and a Contributing Writer for CIC News and CanadaVisa.com.

Michael first came to Cohen Immigration Law in 2018, as an articling student. After his call to the Law Society of Ontario in 2019, he served as Foreign Law Clerk to Justice Daphne Barak-Erez at the Supreme Court of Israel. Upon Michael's return to Canada, he resumed work as a lawyer at Cohen Immigration Law.

As part of his undergraduate education, Michael participated in a student exchange to the University of Sydney, in Australia. He has also been a visiting graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied French at the Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Glendon College of York University.

While in law school, Michael volunteered at the Legal Information Clinic at McGill and interned at the Elder Law Clinic; he was also the inaugural recipient of a joint prize of the Lord Reading Law Society and Ministère de la Justice du Québec for being the student who “best promotes and advances the objects of the Lord Reading Law Society and the mission of the Ministère de la Justice.”

In addition to his B.C.L./LL.B. from McGil, Michael holds a B.A. from the same institution, and an M.A. from the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy. He is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario and the Lord Reading Law Society.