
Cooper S. Ashley
Partner
Chair of Firm Governance Committee, since
2007
f612.642.8363
cooper.ashley@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Cooper Ashley is a partner in Maslon's Litigation Practice Group. Since 2003, he has served on the firm's Governance Committee and is currently the Chair. Cooper's practice is focused primarily on products liability matters on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants and complex class action and tort cases, including environmental toxic tort and fire/explosion cases. He has first chaired numerous jury and bench trials in state and federal courts, argued appeals before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (en banc), the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and conducted all manner of related fact and expert discovery and motion practice. Cooper has appeared on behalf of clients in multiple state and federal jurisdictions, including courts in
- Litigation
- Insurance
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Tort & Product Liability
- Drugs and Medical Devices
- Environmental Litigation
- Explosions and Fire
- Federal Preemption
- Mass Torts, MDL and Class Actions
- Products Liability
- Punitive Damages
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois,
1980
J.D. - The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
1976
B.A.
- Minnesota, 1980
- U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1989
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2001
- Minnesota State Bar Association - Member
- Hennepin County Bar Association - Member
- Minnesota Loan Repayment Assistance Program ("LRAP") - Board Member
- Fund for the Legal Aid Society - Board Member
- Paulson et al. v. 3M: The Jury's Verdict -- 3M Groundwater Litigation, Hennepin County Bar Association, October 2009
- Hold Everything! Document preservation requirements and 'litigation holds' and how to survive them. What matters. A Maslon speaker series. November 2006
- Attorney of the Year, Minnesota Lawyer, 2009
- Minnesota Super Lawyers
- AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell (AV, BV, and CV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies)