Washington, District Of Columbia 20036
United States
Charles J. Cooper is a founding member and chairman of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. Named by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 best civil litigators in Washington, he has over 35 years of legal experience in government and private practice, with several appearances before the United States Supreme Court and scores of other successful cases on both the trial and appellate levels.
Shortly after serving as law clerk to Judge Paul Roney of the Fifth (now Eleventh) Circuit Court of Appeals, and to Justice (later Chief Justice) William H. Rehnquist, Mr. Cooper joined the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1981. In 1985 President Reagan appointed Mr. Cooper to the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. Mr. Cooper reentered private practice in 1988, as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of McGuire Woods. From 1990 until the founding of Cooper & Kirk in 1996, he was a partner at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge where he headed the firm’s Constitutional and Government Litigation Group.
Mr. Cooper’s practice is national in scope and is concentrated in the areas of constitutional, commercial, and civil rights litigation. He is currently representing private clients in a variety of commercial cases, including antitrust, intellectual property, and contract disputes. Mr. Cooper also represents a number of state and local government bodies, as well as private clients, in a wide range of constitutional and federal statutory cases.
Areas of Practice | 1) Administrative Litigation, 2) Antitrust, 3) Appellate, 4) Class Actions, 5) Commercial Litigation, 6) Constitutional Litigation, 7) Election Law, 8) Employment Litigation, 9) Government Contracts Litigation, 10) Health Care Litigation, 11) Intellectual Property, 12) Qui Tam and 13) State Repr |
Law School | University of Alabama School of Law ( J.D.1977) |
Education | University of Alabama School of Business Administration (B.S. 1974) |
Most recent firm | Cooper & Kirk, PLLC |
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