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Cooley LLP

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite

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Cooley LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Cooley LLP offers a deep bench of litigators with strong capabilities in a broad array of complex commercial litigation and high stakes class actions. It demonstrates strength in areas such as contractual suits, privacy cases and intellectual property disputes, supported by capable trial lawyers. The firm has enviable expertise acting for notable life sciences and technology sector clients alongside media and financial services.

Notable practitioners

New York-based Ian Shapiro chairs Cooley’s global litigation department.

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Work Highlights

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  • Cooley LLP defended Google in a state class action and jury trial, in which plaintiffs alleged that the Android operating system causes certain data to be transmitted from Android devices to Google servers over cellular networks rather than wi-fi, utilizing plaintiffs’ cellular data allowances without permission.

Strengths

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  • Cooley attorneys are detail-oriented and practical. It provides clients with a full analysis as well as practical advice.

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  • The team is brilliant, creative and dependable. They are also responsive and great problem-solvers.

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  • Cooley does everything well. Its lawyers are very honest in providing their advice. They're very incisive, strategic and efficient. They're also very good at learning complicated concepts quickly and translating them into a litigation context.

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  • Cooley has an experienced team that provides impeccable preparation and can view any situation from multiple perspectives. The team is eminently commercial and well-considered in its recommendations. They are expert at breaking down a situation and providing the right framework to consider the entirety of the issues.

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  • Cooley is always responsive and understands our business. It is a game changer for us to have a firm that has the depth and breadth of legal expertise in all areas.

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