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. Mr. Cooper has represented some of the biggest names in American politics, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions in response to the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and former National Security Adviser and United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
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.
In 1998 Mr. 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. Mr. 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 wide variety of constitutional and legal policy topics.
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"Civility in the Law" DC Lunch
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The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
Financial Innovation and Innovative Financial Regulators
14th Annual Symposium of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School - Founders Hall Auditorium3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
25 Years of Justice Clarence Thomas
Yale Student Chapter
Yale Law School127 Wall St
New Haven, CT 06520
Justice Scalia and the Evolution of Chevron Deference
Second Annual Texas Chapters Conference
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin1900 University Ave
Austin, TX 78705
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1992 National Student Symposium
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Panel IV: The Anti-Federalists after 200 Years: Pundits or Prophets?
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