The blame game in court – it’s not your fault This year marks our 20th anniversary of fighting for our clients’ rights. We’ve seen a lot during that time, enough to know the tactics defense attorneys like to use again and again—and how to combat them. In this article, we’re taking a look back at …
When your livelihood involves seeking justice for living, breathing people, you tend to dig a little deeper into a case, even when the facts seem bleak. You listen to your instincts. You follow up on hunches you might otherwise ignore. and you realize it can completely change the outcome of a case. A troubled family, …
We’ve been reflecting on our firm’s twenty years in the legal profession and anticipating the next twenty. This article looks at changes to the jury system, and how a process supposedly meant to protect litigants could actually be creating an unsafe society. The jury system under attack The idea that an injured person should receive …
It was a deal a couple of years in the making, and nobody dreamed it would end up in civil litigation. BriteTech Sign Company* developed a new type of LED signage that was an improvement on the message boards you see in lots of places nowadays. But having the signs only got them so far. …
The clients we work with have been dealt catastrophic losses, and each client is affected deeply. They each face the tragedy in their own way, trying to make sense of what happened and to begin to heal. The civil justice system is best set up to provide money to compensate someone’s loss, but we’ve found …
Law is complex — most people know that. and so are the reasons someone may seek the help of an attorney. Contrary to what many TV shows and news reports suggest, civil litigation doesn’t simply boil down to people seeking money. Actually, money is almost never at the heart of why people come to us …
The civil litigation attorneys here at Cooper & Elliott have a reputation for taking on challenging cases. It’s not the easiest way to practice law, but there are a number of reasons why it’s the path we choose to take. Reason #1: We love a challenge One reason we seek the toughest of cases is …
Clients come to Cooper & Elliott because complex civil litigation is one of the areas where we excel. and because we want to help, there is nothing we dislike more than delivering bad news. and the initial news we had to give Henry Jackson* was devastating. Henry was a diamond merchant from New York who …
