Chad D. Cooper

Practices

• Business Litigation
• Product Liability Litigation

Professional Experience

Chad is counsel in the firm's Business Litigation & Product Liability practice groups. He handles a variety of litigation, including commercial litigation, contract disputes, banking and lender liability, real estate litigation, business torts, alternative dispute resolution, product liability, construction litigation, professional liability, civil rights and municipal liability. Chad represents manufacturers, banks and financial services companies, real estate firms, small businesses, trusts and estates, insurance companies, medical providers and service companies.

Chad is admitted to practice in Ohio, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit and U.S. Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Education

• University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1996
• Wheaton College (IL), B.A., 1992, Pi Kappa Delta Forensics Honor Society; National Merit Scholar; Presidential Scholar

• Represented financial institutions in consumer class action lawsuits.
• Represented distributor in patent and unfair competition case.
• Represented trust in partnership dispute.
• Represented software company in copyright dispute.
• Represented manufacturers in transportation billing disputes.
• Represented estate and trust in fraud case.
• Represented automobile dealer in consumer sales practices cases.
• Represented manufacturer in commercial equipment dispute.
• Represented bank in real estate dispute.
• Represented park district in civil rights claim.
• Represented general partner in partnership breakup.
• Represented retailer in lease dispute.
• Represented financial institutions in predatory lending cases.
• Represented financial institution in class action lawsuit alleging fraudulent lending scheme.
• Represented franchisee in commercial real estate dispute.
• Represented financial institution in case alleging conversion of settlement proceeds from sale of real property.
• Represented financial institutions in replevin of secured property.
• Represented financial institutions in foreclosure proceedings.
• Represented owner of commercial property in case against utility.
• Represented real estate developer in case involving failed sale of commercial property.
• Represented real property owner in lawsuit to enforce deed restrictions.
• Represented manufacturers in product liability and UCC breach of warranty cases.
  
  
• Reported Cases:
• Air Tiger Express v. Barclay, 2008 U.S. Dist. Lexis 51432 (N.D. Ill. 2008)
• Czyzewski v. Dave Arbogast Buick/Pontiac/GMC Truck, Inc., 2008 Ohio 2872 (Montgomery Ct. App. 2008)
• Johnson v. Knotts, 2007 U.S. Dist. Lexis 65383 (S.D. Ohio 2007)
• GZK, Inc. v. Schumaker Limited Partnership, 168 Ohio App. 3d 106 (Montgomery Ct. App. 2006)
• MJW Enterprises, Inc. v. Mary W. Laing, Trustee, 2006 Ohio 4011 (Montgomery Ct. App. 2006)
• Pyle v. Wells Fargo Financial, 2005 Ohio 6478 (Franklin Ct. App. 2005)
• State v. Taylor, 159 Ohio App. 3d 629 (Montgomery Ct. App. 2005)
• Wyse v. Ameritech, 2004 Ohio 1015 (Montgomery Ct. App. 2004)
• McCann v. New Century Mortgage, 2003 Ohio 2752 (Cuyahoga Ct. App. 2003)
• Worthington v. City of Columbus, 100 Ohio St. 3d 103 (2003)
• Worthington v. City of Columbus, 2002 Ohio 2330 (Franklin Ct. App. 2002)
• Hollis Towing v. Greene, 155 Ohio App. 3d 300 (Greene Ct. App. 2003)
• White v. SMI of Pattison Ave., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13027 (E.D. Pa. 1998)
• Ozoemena v. City of Philadelphia, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15282 (E.D. Pa. 1997)

• Selected for inclusion in Rising Stars by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine in 2007 and 2009