About
Lance Cooper is the founding companion of The Cooper Firm. He practices in all the company s exercise regions, with an emphasis on product legal responsibility cases concerning car design and manufacturing defects.
Prior to forming the company in March 1998, Mr. Cooper became a accomplice with the law workplace of Cooper Jones & Cooper where he represented plaintiffs in extensive non-public injury and wrongful loss of life instances. Mr. Cooper has been lead counsel for plaintiffs in a large number of civil jury trials, which include trials in opposition to General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Continental General Tire, Toyota, and the Department of Transportation. He has effectively prosecuted hundreds of instances and has received severa multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements.
Mr. Cooper s professional accomplishments have been diagnosed by using his friends. His trial abilities and experience are showed with the aid of his membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an exceptional, invitation-simplest institution reserved for the maximum skilled trial legal professionals across the kingdom. He has additionally risen to leadership positions in various legal professional-led agencies. He served because the 2002-2003 President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and is a past President of the Cobb County Trial Lawyers Association. He has also served at the Board of Trustees of the Cobb County Bar Association.
Mr. Cooper is often requested to talk to lawyer agencies and has performed so on subjects inclusive of effective trial techniques and recognizing automobile product liability instances. He has additionally co-authored articles on maximizing damages in catastrophic injury cases and proving up different comparable incidents at product legal responsibility trials.
Mr. Cooper acquired his law diploma from Emory University in 1989, and whilst in regulation college, he was a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar and an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He acquired his bachelor s diploma in political economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985.
Mr. Cooper is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the State Bar of California and is admitted to exercise before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is likewise a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and Cobb County Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Cooper lives in Powder Springs, Georgia together with his spouse Sonja and their 5 children.
Areas of Practice
Products Defects
Medical Malpractice
Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
Motor Vehicle Defects
Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
Bar Admissions
California, 1989
Georgia, 1990
Education
Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
J.D. - 1989
Honors: G. Joseph Tauro Scholar
Law Journal: Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1988 - 1989
Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
1986-1988
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
B.A. - 1985
Representative Cases
Georgia Pipe Co. v. Lawler, 262 Ga.App. 22, 584 S.E.2d 634 (2003)
Beam v. Kingsley, 255 Ga. App 715 (Ga.App. 2002)
Coker v. DaimlerChrysler Corporation, 220 F. Supp. 2nd 1367 (N.D. Ga. 2002)
Watkins v. Ford Motor Company, a hundred ninety F.3d 1213 (eleventh Cir. 1999)
Kapsch v. Stowers, 434 S.E.second 539, 209 Ga.App. 767 (Ga.App. 1993)
Good Ol Days Downtown, Inc. v. Yancey, 434 S.E.2d 740, 209 Ga.App. 696 (Ga.App. 1993)
Classes/Seminars
Trapdoors of Premises Liability Claims, ICLE of Georgia, 1995
New Laws Seminar, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, 1999
Staying Ahead of the Discovery Game - How to Manage Discovery in Complex Cases, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Annual Seminar, 2001
Post Sale Duty to Warn/Recall - Current Georgia Law, ICLE of Georgia, 2003
Professional Associations and has membershipships
State Bar of Georgia, has membership, 1990 - Present
State Bar of California, has club, 1989 - Present
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, has membership, 1990 - Present
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, President, 2002 - 2003
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Executive Vice-President, 2000 - 2002
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Vice-President, 1996 - 2000
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, LawPac, Chairperson, 1998 - 2000
Cobb County Bar Association, has club, 1990 - Present
Cobb County Trial Lawyers Association, has membership, 1993 - Present
Cobb County Trial Lawyers Association, President, 1996 - 1998
American Board of Trial Advocates, has club, 2004 - 2005
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- Asbestos & Mesothelioma
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Car Accidents
- Insurance Bad Faith
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