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Cooley Adds Two Partners in New York
Additions Bolster White Collar Criminal Defense and Technology Transactions Practices
| Source: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - August 20, 2007) - Cooley Godward Kronish LLP announced today
that Laura Grossfield Birger, former Chief of the General Crimes Unit in
the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and
Jennifer B. Coplan, a former counsel with Debevoise & Plimpton focusing on
technology transactions, have joined the Firm's New York office as
partners.
Birger is an accomplished trial attorney who served in a number of
important leadership positions in the U.S. Attorney's Office since her
arrival in 1997, including Assistant U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief of the
Appeals Unit and, since 2004, Chief of the General Crimes Unit. In two
major recent cases with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Birger assisted in
securing a life sentence against an armed robber under the federal
"three-strikes" law and federal prison terms for two lawyers found guilty
of an extensive client fraud scheme.
Coplan practices in the areas of information technology and intellectual
property law primarily for technology, consumer electronics, media and
financial services companies. At Debevoise & Plimpton, she advised on the
negotiation of complex technology transactions, including technology
development, licensing, and outsourcing arrangements, and advised leading
international consumer electronics, technology and motion picture companies
in connection with a variety of matters relating to digital rights
management.
"We are extremely pleased to bolster our New York office with two talented
attorneys of Laura and Jennifer's caliber," said Alan Levine, partner in
charge of Cooley's New York office. "We are confident that their combined
experience will prove invaluable in continuing to grow the Firm's
litigation and transactional capabilities and provide additional resources
to our clients in both white collar criminal defense and technology
transactions counseling."
At Cooley, Birger will add to the Firm's already-deep bench of former
prosecutors. She will focus on white collar criminal matters and will also
support a variety of complex commercial litigation matters. Coplan will
focus in the area of technology transactions and will be the first
technology transactions group partner in the New York office.
Birger graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1990 with a B.A.
and earned her law degree from Yale Law School in 1993. She clerked at the
District Court level for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then
began her career in private practice in 1994 with Fried Frank Harris
Shriver & Jacobson in New York. She joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in
1997.
Coplan is a 1986 graduate of Tufts University where she earned a B.S. summa
cum laude in Computer Science. She worked as a software engineer before
attending Yale Law School where she earned her J.D. in 1993. She began the
private practice of law with Debevoise & Plimpton in 1993 and practiced
with that firm until she joined Cooley.
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