Robert E. Cooper is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office.  A member of the firm's Litigation Department, Mr. Cooper joined the firm in 1964, and has extensive experience in antitrust and business tort litigation.

Mr. Cooper has served as trial counsel in numerous trials, including many major antitrust cases.  Mr. Cooper achieved three successive trial victories for a major pharmaceuticals manufacturer in the antibiotics antitrust litigation.  He successfully defended American Airlines in three major antitrust cases.  In the first case, plaintiffs sought in excess of $350 million, alleging monopolization of computerized reservation services.  A three-month jury trial resulted in a jury verdict for the airline.  In the second,  Mr. Cooper successfully defended American Airlines against charges of predatory pricing in a jury trial in which plaintiffs sought treble damages exceeding $3 billion.  More recently, Mr. Cooper won summary judgment for the airline in an action instituted by the United States Department of Justice, alleging monopolization of American's Dallas-Fort Worth hub.

Mr. Cooper also achieved two jury victories for Hewlett-Packard: the first involved allegations that HP monopolized the sale of replacement cartridges for its inkjet printers, and the most recent involved allegations of deceptive trade practices in the sale of printers.  Other clients Mr. Cooper has served as trial counsel include Sempra Energy, Intel, Ticketmaster, Honeywell, Northrop, Allergan, and Callaway Golf Company.

Mr. Cooper received his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from Northwestern University in 1961.  He earned his law degree from Yale University in 1964, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal.  Mr. Cooper is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and is a frequent lecturer on the antitrust laws and trial of complex litigation.