Miles B. Cooper

Compassion combined with trial experience, strategy, risk assessment, passionate communication, growth, relentless pursuit, and community involvement. These tools live at the top of Miles’s toolbox. How do they help solve problems? Compassion: By embracing those who come to the firm for help, Miles takes uncertainty’s stress off their shoulders. This begins by listening to their concerns, educating them about the process, taking control of the situation, and thus allowing them to focus on their healing. Miles understands uncertainty’s anxiety-provoking nature through life experience. When the Coopers’ daughter was just shy of her third birthday, doctors found a rare lung cancer. The family spent her third birthday and several weeks thereafter in the pediatric ICU, a 24-hour fishbowl of poking, prodding, beeps, and whirs. Surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, and feeding tubes – a year’s worth of medical adventures followed. Thankfully, she survived and thrives. This personal struggle through trauma, risk, uncertainty, reliance on medical professionals’ input, challenge, and ultimately success informs the Coopers’ compassionate approach with clients. Trial experience: If compassion is the alpha, trial experience is the lawyer’s omega. Trial skills are becoming a dying art though, with 98% of civil cases settling. Miles sought out trials, building his skills and reputation early on. As a result, at age 39 he was admitted to the American Board of Trial Advocates, an invitation-only organization that admits trial lawyers based on their trial skills, ethics, and civility. Other lawyers who have not had the opportunity to be in trial regularly ask he and the team to take over cases shortly before trial. The firm will do everything in its power to affect a great settlement. While the firm loves trial, trials carry higher risk and stress for clients. The team achieves great settlements by demonstrating trial readiness. If the other side does not step up, Miles and the team pour every available resource into winning through trial. Strategy: Every situation has moving parts, frequently multi-layered and complex. Using decades of experience and a team case strategy session, Miles, Maryanne, and the team develop a targeted case plan. The plan provides a road map to victory while regular case meetings provide opportunities to counter any shifts in the other side’s tactics. Through creativity, the team shuns blunt litigation trauma unless absolutely necessary, instead finding nimble ways to resolution.