About
John Cooper has been a non-public damage lawyer, that specialize in automobile, truck and motorcycle coincidence instances in addition to wrongful loss of life, brain injuries, slip and fall, product legal responsibility and FELA railroad employee accidents for over 30 years. He is a founding accomplice of Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. The firm has workplaces in Norfolk and patron assembly places in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Suffolk, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Hampton, VA. His law companions are Jim Hurley, Bill O’Mara and Griff O Hanlon.
John Cooper handles instances in Virginia, North Carolina and, West Virginia. He has taken on railroad worker harm and truck coincidence litigation across the US.
John Cooper treated a truck coincidence/wrongful demise lawsuit which ended in the largest agreement of a motor vehicle-associated case in all of Virginia in 2010, in step with Virginia Lawyers Weekly. In 2012, John Cooper and Jim Hurley treated a case in which a female from Hampton changed into badly injured in a truck crash, which led to a $five million settlement. John Cooper dealt with a $three.5 million trucking twist of fate demise case in Norfolk, securing $three.5 million for a kid who misplaced a figure.
John Cooper holds severa honors. He chaired the FELA Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. He is a Governor at Large of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. He has led efforts to bring Continuing Legal Education (CLE) to lawyers throughout Virginia. John Cooper has been listed in Virginia Super Lawyers for private damage regulation considering the fact that 2010 (best 5% of legal professionals get this listing). He holds a top AV score given that 2004 from Martindale-Hubbell, showing the highest level of skill and ethics. He is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Roundtable and is ranked 10 of 10 by Avvo lawyer ratings. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
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- Car Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Truck Accidents
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- Free Consultation
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Languages
- English
- Spanish
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Experience
- Managing Partner
Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
2011 - Partner
Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis & Appleton, P.C.
1997 - Personal Injury Lawyer
Kalfus & Nachman, P.C.
1995 - Senior Litigation Associate
Croshaw, Beale, Hauser & Lewis, P.C.
1989 - Law clerk
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Divsion
1988
Educations

Graduation year: 1986

Graduation year: 1982