Brent Cooper is a litigation senior associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker Botts. Brent represents clients in a broad range of complex civil litigation matters, and he has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including real estate, financial services, upstream and midstream oil and gas, metals manufacturing, alternative energy, and insurance.
Brent has experience assisting clients at all stages of trial and appellate litigation in state and federal court as well as disputes in arbitration, including evaluating litigation risks, preparing and answering lawsuits, serving and responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, arguing dispositive motions, managing litigation teams, engaging in mediation, preparing for trial, evaluating and pursuing appeals, and negotiating settlements.
Brent began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and he joined the Houston, Texas, office of Baker Botts after his clerkship. After spending time in the Florida and Washington, D.C., offices of another international law firm, Brent returned to Baker Botts.
