Cooper & Kirk is one of the Nation's premier litigation firms. We have an extraordinary record of success. As lead trial counsel, we have secured awards and settlements of more than $500 million and injunctive relief worth more than $4 billion to our clients. We have also invalidated numerous federal statutes, from the Line Item Veto Act, to census sampling, to the composition of the Federal Election Commission. As defense counsel, we have successfully defended the vital business interests of our corporate clients and the sovereign rights of our state and local governmental clients.
We pride ourselves on handling and winning cases that touch upon a broad array of subject matters. As our practice area descriptions reflect, we have an uncommon breadth of experience. But we have also consistently achieved success in areas in which we have no prior experience.
Our philosophy is reflected in the motto inscribed on the Firm's flag: Vincere aut Mori ("Victory or Death"). To that end, our partners are intimately involved in all facets of the cases we handle, and we have a partner to associate ratio of approximately one to one. We are committed to winning our cases, and our results reflect the intensity and fervor of that commitment.
Recent Victories
Represented Boeing as co-counsel in a successful bid protest relating to a $40 billion procurement contract for aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
Won and collected judgments totaling almost $200 million for clients in commercial disputes.
Filed suit against Duke University and the City of Durham on behalf of 38 members of the 2006 Duke lacrosse team.
Represented former Attorney General John Ashcroft before Congress in the so-called "Torture Hearings."
Won summary judgment on behalf of Shell, Texaco, Union Oil of California, and Atlantic Richfield holding the United States liable for tens of millions of dollars in costs for cleaning up a California Superfund site.
Secured from the Sixth Circuit an emergency writ of mandamus in a major Medicaid suit, halting forensic imaging of computers maintained by the Governor of Tennessee and other high level state officials.
