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More than a Decade of Appellate Experience
Principal attorney Kirk Cooper is a board-certified civil appellate specialist prepared to provide everything from a light touch when effective to zealous advocacy in the nation’s highest courts when necessary. As the former chief counsel to a state appeals court, Kirk focuses on ensuring a case's long-term success.
About the Firm
Providing Direct Representation to Clients in Appellate Proceedings and More
The firm represents clients in appeals before all Texas appellate courts (including the Texas Supreme Court); the New Mexico Court of Appeals; the New Mexico Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans (reviewing federal court decisions from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi); and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver (reviewing federal court decisions in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma).
The firm also serves as co-counsel to trial teams litigating cases in state and federal courts throughout West Texas and Southern New Mexico. Kirk Cooper can provide additional legal research and writing services to busy trial lawyers who need appellate law insight or additional resources from a civil appellate specialist.
Litigation Consultation and Attorney-to-Attorney Outsourcing
For trial attorneys, success or failure during critical pretrial procedural fights over issues like jurisdiction, venue, arbitration, discovery, or dismissal can potentially have a large impact on settlement negotiations, the value of a case, or a jury’s damages assessment. When interlocutory appeals or mandamus actions are necessary, trial counsel is often left fighting two fires at once: one in the trial court, and one in the court of appeals.
Adding a board-certified civil appellate specialist to your team or outsourcing legal research and writing work to our firm can help shore up your chances of success on appeal and help you deal with the procedural minefield of law-intensive pretrial issues that could make or break a case before it ever gets to a jury, freeing trial counsel up to do actual classical trial work.
Local Commitment with a Regional Reach
Cooper Appeals, P.L.L.C. is based in El Paso, Texas, and is proud to serve the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juarez community.
Kirk Cooper is licensed to practice in all Texas state courts, all New Mexico state courts, and the federal courts for the Western District of Texas, the Southern District of Texas, the District of New Mexico, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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Kirk Cooper is board certified in civil appellate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is licensed to practice in Texas, New Mexico, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, the U.S. District Court for New Mexico, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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