S. MICHAEL COOPER - Partner.

• Insurance Coverage
• Insurance Defense
• Commercial Litigation

Mike Cooper was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Shreveport. He is married and the proud father of three boys.

Mike practices in the areas of insurance coverage, insurance defense and commercial litigation. He serves as state wide coverage counsel for one of the world’s 20 largest insurance and reinsurance companies. He counsels clients, manages disputes, and tries cases involving a wide variety of insurance coverage issues, including matters arising from bad faith, construction defect claims, third-party liability claims, first-party claims, transportation claims, environmental claims, general and toxic tort claims, multiple-year trigger and allocation issues, Louisiana direct action claims and numerous others.

• Born Jackson, Mississippi, June 2, 1969
• Vanderbilt University - B.S., 1991
• Tulane University - J.D., cum laude, 1995
• Admitted to bar, 1996, Louisiana
• AV rated by Martindale Hubbell
• Recipient, Pro Bono Outstanding Achievement Award, 1999
• Author, "Considering Additional Insured Coverage,"Risk Management Magazine (February 2005)
• Speaker, “Meta-data and E-discovery,” Inns of Court,Shreveport Chapter, 2008
• Speaker, “Additional Insured Issues,” Louisiana Claims Conference, 2009

MEMBERSHIPS

• Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Member
• Shreveport and Louisiana State Bar Associations
• Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
• Federal Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute