Straightening the curve

Ronald Cohn really doesn't like reading bad news in the real estate world. But he knows when the housing market is down, it means business for him is about to go up.

At least it used to.

Cohn has mastered a counter-cycle approach to law over the past two decades, first with his own firm, Cohn & Cohn, and now as part of the Arnstein & Lehr's Tampa office. Working against the economic stream, however, is exactly what Cohn wants to change. That comes not just from welcoming new practice areas for his law firm, but new people -- like veteran creditor rights bankruptcy attorney Edmund Whitson III.