Committee Members

Michael A. Cooper

Michael Cooper was a litigation partner at the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 1968 through 2003 and is now Of Counsel to the Firm. Mr. Cooper served as President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1998 - 2000, having previously chaired the Association's Executive Committee. He is the President and a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has chaired the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, served on the ABA Task force on civil trial practice standards, and been a Trustee of the Federal Bar Council.

Mr. Cooper has long been active in public interest organizations. From 1981 to 1983 he was President of the Legal Aid Society. He chairs the Board of Pro Bono Net. At the request of New York's Chief Judge, he chaired the Legal Services Project, which sought permanent funding of civil legal services to the poor. He was Co-Chair of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 1993 to 1995. He is also a member of the Overseers Visiting Committee to Harvard Law School, and he is active in Harvard Law School alumni affairs, having been President of the Harvard Law School Association of New York City and chaired the Harvard Law School Fund.

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