MEET JAMI.

Jamison (“Jami”) Cooper has a practice that focuses on pre-litigation and litigation matters. During the course of her career, Jami Cooper has handled commercial disputes, insurance coverage matters, construction and property disputes, contract-drafting and commercial litigation, personal injury and wrongful death matters including automobile accidents and premises liability claims, condemnation and eminent domain proceedings, consumer products and “lemon law” issues, insurance bad faith, and professional liability. In addition to those areas, she also represents clients in private adoption matters and, in that regard, has handled private adoptions, contested adoptions, step-parent adoptions and adoptions from foster care. In conjunction with her work in litigation and professional liability, Jami Cooper also provides counsel and advice to businesses, to include insurers and law firms, on professional liability and risk management issues. Jami Cooper’s litigation practice is served well by her exceptional research and writing skills, her attention to detail, and her ability to communicate with clients in a way that helps them understand the complexities of the legal matters with which they are faced.

After graduating law school in 1999, Jami served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert C. Chambers of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Huntington Division). In June, 2001, Jami joined Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, where she served that firm’s litigation clients until June, 2007, when she and Dan Cooper formed Cooper Law Offices, PLLC. Jami is admitted to practice before all West Virginia federal and state courts, including the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in October, 2025.

Jami is actively engaged in the legal community beyond her work as a lawyer, serving as member in the following organizations:

West Virginia State Bar
Vice President (2026-present)
Board of Governors (2022-2026)
Co-Chair, Women in the Profession Committee (2019-present)

National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations
President (2026-present)
President-Elect (2025-2026)
Secretary (2024-2025)
Board of Directors (2018-2025)

Harrison County Bar Association
President (2022-2023)
Vice-President (2021-2022)
Secretary (2019-2020)
Director (2013-2023)

Jami was named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2021, and is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance. She is also a member of the West Virginia Women Attorneys.

Jami has an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale Hubble, has been listed in Best Lawyers in Amercia since 2010, and has been rated by SuperLawyers since 2018.

Jami graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from James Madison University in 1996 and completed her legal education at the West Virginia University College of Law in 1999. While in law school, Jami served as a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing department for two years, was a member of the Moot Court Board, received the Best Brief Award in the 1999 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Moot Court Competition at Duke University, received the Best Brief Award in the 1998 Baker Cup Moot Court Competition at West Virginia University, and was inducted into the Order of the Barristers.

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AV PREEMINENT RANKINGS BY MARTINDALE HUBBLE

Martindale-Hubble, a peer review rating process based on the anonymous assessments by lawyers and judges, has given Jami Cooper the highest rating available for lawyers – AV Preeminent. The rating indicates that Jami Cooper has been given a score awarded only to those lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability.

BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA

Jami Cooper is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, an honor that she has received each year since 2010. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected lawyer ranking service in the world. For 40 years, Best Lawyers has assisted those in need of legal services to identify the lawyers best qualiﬁed to represent them in distant jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. Lawyers who are nominated for consideration are voted on by currently recognized Best Lawyers working in the same practice area and located in the same geographic region. Our awards and recognitions are based purely on the feedback we receive from these top lawyers. Those who receive high peer reviews undergo a thorough verification process to make sure they are currently still in private practice. Only then can these top lawyers be recognized by Best Lawyers.

SUPER LAWYERS

Jami Cooper has been selected to the West Virginia Super Lawyers list each year since 2018. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.

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