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Charles Cooper Profile
Phone: (215)561-3313
Fax: (215)246-0693
Email:
charlescooper@cooperandschall.com
Bar Admissions: Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Bar Association Memberships: Pennsylvania Bar Association, Pennsylvania
Association of Justice, Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia Trial
Lawyers Association
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Charles Cooper, Esq. is a graduate of Delaware Law School in Wilmington
Delaware where he participated in the Moot Court competition and clerked
at the Wilmington Delaware District Attorney’s Office where prosecuted
criminal cases to develop his trial skills. Mr. Cooper clerked for the
Honorable Sydney Hoffman of The Pennsylvania Superior Court.
After graduating
law school Mr. Cooper took and passed the Bar Examination in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey and in 1986 he was admitted to the Bar in both states
and has practiced civil litigation in Federal and State Courts since that
time. Mr. Cooper began his career litigating workman’s compensation cases
for Thomas McDevitt, Esq. who was a pioneer in development and prosecution
of workman’s compensation injury cases representing workers seriously
injured in work accidents. Mr. Cooper then worked for and became a partner
in the firm of Mammuth and LeWinter representing victims of serious accidents
including motor vehicle, premises liability, food poisoning, and product
liability litigation.
Mr. Cooper then worked for the law firm of Mesorov,
Gelman, Jaffe Cramer and Jamieson where he was the Senior litigator
in the Tort Group and he expanded his practice to include toxic tort, medical
malpractice, dental malpractice, civil rights and employment
discrimination litigation. Mr Cooper then opened his own practice litigating
personal injury cases then in 2000 joined forces with Mr, Schall to form
the law firm of Cooper & Schall, P.C. Mr. Cooper has litigated and won
cases of first impression in Pennsylvania including lead paint intoxication
litigation where he successfully obtained a significant settlement for
a lead poisoned child which was the first such settlement in Pennsylvania.
Mr Cooper has represented insured persons for increased coverage in litigation
against the insurance carrier and obtained results that changed
the law in Pennsylvania forcing insurance carriers to obtain increased
documentation allowing insured persons to obtain more insurance coverage
by operation of law so that more insurance would be available to compensate
accident victims.
Mr Cooper has obtained significant medical and dental
malpractice verdicts in Pennsylvania always fighting for the victims
of institutional and corporate wrong doing including actions against
multi-million dollar corporations. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and American Trial Lawyers Organizations and has lectured
in he Philadelphia area on Trial Techniques, Trial advocacy and Trial
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