Lawrence Edwin Kahn (born December 8, 1937) is an American attorney serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 24/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 45/year
New York Northern District Court · 1996–2007
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Supreme Court of the State of New YorkJustice · 1980–1996
- Albany County [New York] Surrogate's CourtJudge · 1973–1979
- Private practice, Albany, New York1963–1973
- Albany, New YorkAssistant corporation counsel · 1963–1968
Appointments
1996–2007 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- University of Oxford
J.D. · 1962- Union CollegeA.B. · 1959