Allison Lane Cooper

ASSOCIATE

Telephone: (415) 249-8330
Email: acooper@kksrr.com

 

 

Allison Lane Cooper is a senior associate with more than 10 years of experience representing clients in professional negligence, product liability, consumer protection, appellate, and catastrophic personal injury cases. She has vast experience in all aspects of litigation, from its inception through trial. She has briefed and argued appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and California Appellate Courts. She has extensive experience in federal and state court practice, as well as arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution procedures. She is admitted in California and Florida, and has been admitted pro hac vice in federal courts throughout the country.

NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS

• Defended international health food retailer and dietary supplement manufacturer in 5 coordinated wrongful death cases alleging that an herbal tea was a defective product. Obtained defense verdict following 6 week jury trial which was affirmed on appeal, and favorably settled remaining cases afterward.
   
• Obtained summary judgment in multi-million dollar case in favor of estate planning attorney. Prevailed when plaintiff appealed the judgment, and on subsequent motion for reconsideration.
   
• Obtained summary judgment in legal malpractice cases brought by husband and wife against attorney arising out of preparation of prenuptial agreement.
   
• Obtained summary judgment finding no product defect in catastrophic injury case involving electronic control panel of 110 hydraulic press.
   
• Defended New York law firm in litigation claiming fraud, tortious interference with contractual relationships, and bad faith in connection with underlying malpractice and insurance coverage disputes. Nonsuit granted in favor of clients one week into trial.

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Battle of the Bulge Makes its Way to the Courtroom: Fen-Phen/Redux Litigation," Long & Levit Legal Ledger (Winter 1997)
  
• Case Comment, California v. Greenwood, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, Volume II (Spring 1990)

TEACHING AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• "Coverage for Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Termination Claims," Mock Trial, presented to the CPCU Society Annual Meeting (November 1996)
   
• "Insurance Coverage for Sexual Harassment," presented to Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association (April 1996)
   
• Instructor, Appellate Advocacy, University of Florida, (1990)
   
• Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, University of Florida, (1989)
   
• "Focus on Disaster: An Analysis of the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash as a Function of Flawed Group Decision Making Processes," presented at the Southern Communication Association Conference (April 1989)

EDUCATION

University of Florida, J.D. (1990)
Moot Court Team and Board
University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, Associate
  Editor

University of Florida, BA, Speech Communication, with high honors (1987)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

California (1991)

Florida (1992)

United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

United States District Court, Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

State Bar of California

State Bar of Florida

Defense Research Institute

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