Daniel Cooper is the President of LitStrat Inc. While
at LitStrat, he has worked on hundreds of jury and bench
trials. The
cases have generally involved complex civil claims in
the areas of intellectual property, antitrust,
securities, employment, products liability, professional
malpractice, fraud, and commercial contract.
Mr. Cooper is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard
University's Graduate School of Education, and Columbia
University's School of Law. After law school, he clerked
for Judge Jack Weinstein (United States District Court
for the Eastern District of New York.)
He then spent several years in private practice
specializing in complex commercial cases before serving
as Vice President for Corporate Administration at ICN
Pharmaceuticals. In 1996, Mr. Cooper joined Dr. Louis
Genevie at LitStrat.
Mr. Cooper’s recent publications
include: “Tackling Hindsight Bias in Failure to Warn
Cases” (For the
Defense, October 2010, co-authored with Loren Brown,
Esq. and Christopher Campbell, Esq., awarded DRI’s G.
Duffield Smith Outstanding Publication Award for 2010)
and “Teaching Science to Jurors: Ten Challenges to
Effective Communication of Technical Issues by You and
Your Witnesses” (Chapter 24, PLI Course Book,
Trial by Jury 2011.)
Among his other publications, Mr. Cooper co-authored
“Can Jury Research Predict the Outcome of a Trial?” (For
the Defense) and “Trying Patent Cases in US Federal
Courts: Telling the Story Behind the Technology” (Intellectual
Asset Management Magazine, January/February 2010).
Mr. Cooper has taught at various CLE programs and
Webinars and recently completed a nine session in house
law firm CLE program entitled “Speaking with Jurors; a
case study of a patent case from complaint through
deliberations.”