Jenny Cooper > Ropes & Gray LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
800 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02199
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Jenny Cooper
Work Department
Labor & Employment
Position
Counsel
Career
Jenny K. Cooper joined Ropes & Gray in 2015 as a counsel in the Labor & Employment group. She represents employers in complex employment litigation matters, including wage and hour class and collective actions, discrimination matters, whistleblower actions, and disputes concerning restrictive covenants and trade secrets issues. She counsels clients on wage and hour compliance, workforce reductions, employee discipline and discharge, disability, accommodation and leave issues, restrictive covenants, employment agreements, and the various employment law issues that arise in corporate transactions. She has successfully litigated on behalf of her clients before state and federal courts as well as administrative agencies.
More recently, Jenny has been advising clients on a range of labor and employment issues as they relate to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Jenny also has significant experience conducting highly sensitive investigations for a wide variety of clients regarding allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, employee theft, inappropriate use of company resources, assault, hazing, conflicts of interest, and inappropriate relationships. She has counseled clients through remedial measures and other responses to investigative findings.
In Chambers USA, Jenny is listed as a leading labor and employment attorney in Massachusetts, described by clients as “worth her weight in gold,” and “very practical and very good on highly sensitive matters.”
Jenny is committed to pro bono service and, in addition to assisting many non-profits with employee relations issues, has advocated on behalf of women and children in domestic and international cases involving allegations of abuse and violence.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association
Education
- JD, 2000; associate and executive editor; Journal of Race and Law
- BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions