AboutJohn M. Cooper

John Cooper is a veteran of personal injury law practice in Virginia. A native Virginian, he was raised in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. He has more than 30 years of experience handling personal injury cases and recently handled the largest auto accident settlement in 2010, according to VA Lawyers Weekly. The award provided $3.5 million to a child whose young father died when the vehicle he was a passenger in was rear-ended by a careless truck driver.

Virginia, 1988
North Carolina, 2001
West Virginia, 2002

Elected in 2011, 2012 and 2013 to Chair the FELA Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice (the largest plaintiffs’ attorney organization in the United States)
Elected in 2010 and re-elected again every year through 2014 as a District Governor from the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area to the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Governors
Listed among VA “Super Lawyers” for personal injury law 2010-2013, 2015-2020 (only 5% of lawyers get this listing)
Chosen in 2011 and every year since for “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in VA”
AV Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell^® : attorney reputation assessment system, showing the highest level of skill and ethics
Member since 2011 in the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Roundtable
Ranked 10 of 10 (“Superb”) by AVVO, a national lawyer assessment service
2012 Clients’ Choice, Car Accident Lawyer, by AVVO
2019-2020 Top Lawyer by Coastal Virginia Magazine and CoVaBIZ
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 list, 2019
Selected as one of the Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Leaders in the Law” for 2019
AAJ Leaders Forum | The American Association For Justice, Patron

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1988
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1985

Virginia Beach Bar Association
Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association
Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice
Brain Injury Association of Virginia

Accidents, Automobile Accidents, Automobile Negligence, Bicycle Accidents, Boating Accidents, Bodily Injury, Brain Injury, Bus Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Construction Accidents, Dog Bites, Head Injury, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Pedestrian Injuries, School Bus Accidents, Severe Burns, Slip and Fall, Spinal Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Truck Accidents, Unintended Acceleration, Whiplash, Medical Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose, Medical Negligence, Medication Errors, Wrong Site Surgery, Premises Liability, Products Liability, Hit and Run