Practice Expertise

  • Business & Commercial
  • Class Action Defense
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort

Areas of Practice

  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort
  • Business & Commercial
  • Class Action Defense
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Litigation
  • National Trial Team
  • Privacy and Data Security
  • Product Liability
  • Product Safety
  • View More

Profile

Michael P. Cooney is the Director of Dykema’s Litigation Department. A highly experienced trial attorney, his national trial practice is focused on product liability, class action, patent, and commercial litigation. He is regularly called upon by Fortune 500 companies to try high exposure cases in the country’s toughest venues and against some of the country’s top trial attorneys. Mr. Cooney, who has a mechanical engineering degree, has extensive experience presenting complex engineering, business, and science related disputes to juries, judges, and arbitration panels.

Bar Admissions

Michigan, 1986

Education
University of Notre Dame, J.D. University of Notre Dame, B.S.M.E.

Areas of Practice

  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort
  • Business & Commercial
  • Class Action Defense
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Litigation
  • National Trial Team
  • Privacy and Data Security
  • Product Liability
  • Product Safety

Professional Career

Professional Associations
  • American Bar Association
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
  • Federal Bar Association


Blogs

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema’s Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.

NextGen Financial Services Report

NextGen Financial Services Report is published by the Financial Industry Group at Dykema. The Financial Services Industry has gone through a tremendous amount of regulatory and operational IT change in recent years, and with a new presidential administration more changes and developments are on the way. Fast-paced changes are also being driven by rapid technology developments, big data, mobile banking/payments, privacy and data security, and social media technologies affecting banks and credit...

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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