Attorney Patrick Cooper of Milwaukee; check bouncer, repeat offender

The state of Wisconsin presented Patrick Michael Cooper with a law license in 1993 after he graduated from Duquesne University Law School.

The Wisconsin found Patty guilty of the following misconduct.

Patty’s 1^st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Engaged in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty and misrepresentation
• Issued at least 17 checks for $25,657 on insufficient funds count (rubber)
• Converted to his own use $4,425 belonging to a client (thief)
• Made misrepresentations (lied) to client
• Lied about status of client’s case
• Failed to hold client funds in client trust accounts
• Failed to advise clients of receipt of client funds
• Failed to deliver funds owing to clients to several individual clients
• Failed to fully cooperate with ethics investigators (Screw you, said Patty!)
• Failed to deliver client’s file to successor counsel for weeks
• Failed to keep client’s informed of status of legal matters
• Failed to respond to clients’ information requests
• Failed to act with due diligence (slacker)

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Wisconsin Supreme Court punished Patty by gifting him with a complimentary 3-year suspension of his law license.

Patty’s 2^nd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Engaged in 42 separate instances of misconduct
• Failed to respond to repeated requests for medical records involving a workers’ compensation matter
• Never returned promised calls to client
• Lied to client he had received settlement offer
• Failed to keep client’s informed of status of legal matters
• Failed to respond to clients’ information requests
• Failed to provide client file to client upon request
• Failed to act with due diligence (slacker)
• Failed to explain matters to client and to consult with client regarding means of pursuing objectives of representation
• Engaged in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty and misrepresentation
• Engaged in illegal practice of law while license suspended
• Failed to fully cooperate with ethics investigators (Up yours, said Patty!)

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Wisconsin Supreme Court punished Patty by gifting him with a complimentary 2-year suspension of his law license.

As we speak (ca. May 2018), Patty practices the Cooper Law Group SC at 250 East Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.