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Our attorneys have been recognized by our peers for our legal ability, achieving an AV rating, the highest rating for lawyer competence and skill given by Martindale Hubbell. In fact, every member of our firm carries the AV rating. In addition, one of our attorneys has been selected as a Georgia Super Lawyer for the fourth consecutive year.

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Lawrence A. Cooper

Lawrence A. Cooper has received the highest rating given (AV) from Maritndale-Hubbell, which rates attorneys and lawfirms nationwide. Larry has also been chosen by his peers as one of the Georgia Super Lawyers ®, as published in Atlanta Magazine, March 2009, and the Journal of Law & Politics®, 2009. He is an experienced trial lawyer, admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1975 and the State Bar of Texas in 1975. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1975. Larry accepts cases in the following areas:

Divorce
Custody
Paternity
Personal and Catastrophic Injury
Medical Malpractice
Wrongful Death
Commercial Litigation
Fraud Litigation
Civil and Domestic Mediation
Physician Practices

Larry is admitted to practice in all state trial and appellate courts in Georgia, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a Registered Neutral in General Mediation, Domestic Relations Mediation, and Arbitration with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution. He is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta. He received his B.A. from Tulane University, his J.D. from St. Mary's University, and his Master of Laws from Emory University. He has enjoyed teaching for many years at the Emory Law School trial techniques program.

Larry's goal is to effectively and ethically represent his clients in the pursuit of justice. Since his Judicial Clerkship to the Honorable Elmo Holt, Superior Court, Atlanta Judicial Circuit in 1976 and 1977, Larry has represented numerous individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters, legal problems, and business disputes. Larry has successfully tried significant jury cases involving wrongful death, brain damage, spinal cord injury, blindness, traumatic injury, and invasion of privacy. He has had successful jury verdicts in such unique cases as representing the plaintiff in an AIDS invasion of privacy case, and representing the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case concerning a patient who attempted suicide. He has also tried complex jury divorce cases, non-jury divorce cases, and custody cases.

His focus from the moment he accepts your case is to prepare for trial, and at the same time to make diligent effort to reasonably settle the case with minimum expense to you. This approach has served his clients well in significant and complex cases.

Please visit Mr. Cooper’s personal website at www.lawrencecooperlaw.com