Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers Partners Named Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia 2022

NORFOLK, VA — January 25, 2021: Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers’ partners have all been named Top Lawyers following a peer survey conducted by CoVa BIZ magazine.

Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers Partner Griffin O’Hanlon holds the January issue of Coastal Virginia Magazine. All five partners of the Norfolk-based personal injury firm, including John Cooper, Jim Hurley, Bill O’Mara, Griffin O’Hanlon, and John Baker, were voted Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia 2022 by their peers.

CoVa BIZ, the business magazine of Coastal Virginia, conducts annual polls before compiling its 2022 Top Lawyers list. Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers’ partners Jim Hurley, John Cooper, Bill O’Mara, Griff O’Hanlon, and John Baker were all highlighted as attorneys who “exemplify excellence in their various fields.” This marks the third successive year that John Cooper, Jim Hurley, and Bill O’Mara have been named Top Lawyers.

“We’re proud to publish this list as a service to our readers, giving them a representation of some of our area’s most outstanding legal professionals,” the magazine stated. The attorneys will appear in January’s edition of the magazine.

Coastal Virginia Magazine and CoVa BIZ have invited lawyers across the area to nominate their peers as Top Lawyers every year since 2017. The recognition is open to attorneys across diverse fields and is a meaningful indicator of impact and success for attorneys.

The partners at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers have received numerous awards and accolades in recent years as well as peer recognition from awards like that of Top Lawyers.

Founding partners John Cooper and Jim Hurley were named as Virginia Super Lawyers in 2021 by Super Lawyers Magazine. Partners Bill O’Mara, Griff O’Hanlon, and John Baker, the firm’s newest partner, were recognized as Rising Stars.

While all the attorneys appear regularly on Virginia Super Lawyers’ list, the accolade is not guaranteed. Fewer than 5 percent of lawyers make the cut in Virginia and under 2.5 percent of young lawyers are named as “Rising Stars.” The five attorneys from Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers also appeared on the 2020 list, replicating the firm’s success in 2019.

The publisher features the profiles of carefully selected attorneys, and its magazines are distributed to law firms across the state and many law school libraries. Super Lawyers is also published as a special section in leading city and regional magazines nationwide. Lawyers are selected to a Super Lawyers list in all 50 U.S. states as well as in Washington D.C.

Super Lawyers draws up its list of acclaimed attorneys after a long and exhaustive selection process. The magazine gathers numerous peer nominations and evaluations backed up by independent research. Every candidate evaluation is based on “12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.”

Founding partner John Cooper holds an AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating given, for his reputation in the practice of law. He is also rated 10 out of 10 (“Superb”) by Avvo, a long-established rating service, and is ranked among the top 100 trial lawyers in Virginia. Fellow founding partner Jim Hurley has also been awarded an AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell and is rated 10 out of 10 by Avvo.

Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers is headquartered in downtown Norfolk and has client meeting locations in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The firm represents people who suffer injuries in car, truck, and motorcycle accidents as well as other serious accidents as well as families of wrongful death victims. See the firm’s client reviews or call us at (757) 333-3333.