Background
Brent Cooper writes about courts
and coverage for IRMI.com.
Mr. Cooper is a named shareholder in the Dallas office of Cooper &
Scully, P.C., where his practice areas include appellate, insurance, business
and commercial law, products liability, insurance defense and bad faith. He is
board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization.
He is coauthor of Texas Rules of Civil
Procedure Annotated. He has written numerous articles for law reviews
and legal publications and "Recent Developments in Disaster Coverage
Litigation" – "New Approaches and Challenges for Disaster Coverage
Attorneys" (2011).
A native of Dallas, Mr. Cooper earned his Bachelor of Business
Administration, summa cum laude, with
distinction, from Texas A&M University in 1974. He earned his Juris Doctor,
cum laude, at Southern Methodist
University in 1977 where he was also Order of the Coif. He is admitted to
practice in Texas and Oklahoma; the U.S. Supreme Court; Fifth, Eight, and Tenth
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. District Courts for the Northern District
of Florida, Eastern District of Michigan, Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas; and Texas Supreme
Court.