Jonathan E. Behar was born in Los Angeles in 1968. In 1991, Mr. Behar received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara, with high honors and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1994. He is admitted to the State Bar of California (1994) and the Southern and Central Districts of California (1998 and 2000 respectively).
As a partner at Coughlin Stoia, Mr. Behar currently practices in the areas of securities, environmental and consumer litigation. Mr. Behar was actively involved in the prosecution of two of California’s seminal tobacco cases, Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the "Joe Camel" case, as well as Cordova v. Liggett Group, Inc., et al., which alleged a forty year conspiracy by the United States tobacco manufacturers. |