Charles Cooper

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Charles J. Cooper is an appellate attorney and litigator in Washington, D.C. and a founding member and chairman of the law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. He was named by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 best civil litigators in Washington, he has over 25 years of legal experience in government and private practice, with numerous cases in trial and appellate court as well as several appearances before the United States Supreme Court.

Cooper earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Alabama in 1974. He graduated first in his class from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1977 and was editor-in-chief of the Alabama Law Review.

From 1977 to 1979 he clerked for U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Paul Roney and for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. He joined the private practice of Long, Aldridge and Norman in Atlanta, Georgia in 1979, but three years joined the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General. In 1985 President Reagan appointed him to the position of Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. In that capacity, he worked with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito.

Cooper reentered private practice in 1988, as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. 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. He and colleague Michael A. Carvin founded the partnership of Cooper and Carvin on October 1, 1996.

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. 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.

In 1998 Cooper was appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve as a member of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Cooper is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and he has spoken and published extensively on a variety of constitutional and legal policy topics.

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  • "Charles J. Cooper." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 15 Jul 2007, 17:39 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Jul 2007 [1].

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