R. Cooper Shattuck

R. Cooper Shattuck, admitted to the bar in 1990, is licensed to practice before Alabama U.S. District Courts in the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in 1987 from Georgia Institute of Technology and his juris doctorate in 1990 from The University of Alabama, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi, the Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society, president of the Farrah Law Society, a senator in the Student Bar Association, and recipient of the C. Dallas Sands Student Achievement Award. He authored “Bad Faith: Does it Apply to Sureties in Alabama?” which appeared in The Alabama Lawyer in 1996. In 1998, he served as adjunct professor of law teaching Alternative Dispute Resolutions at The University of Alabama School of Law. He taught Sales Law for a number of years thereafter and now teaches Negotiations.

Mr. Shattuck is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Surety Claims Institute, American Inn of Court, Tuscaloosa County Inn of Court, Roster of Alabama State Court Mediators, Alabama Arbitrator Roster of the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel of Neutrals for the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of Alabama.

He currently serves as a Bar Commissioner, representing the 6th Judicial Circuit and has served as president, vice president, secretary/treasurer, and member of the executive committee of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association. He is a member of the Litigation Tort and Insurance Practice, and Fidelity and Surety Law Committees of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Shattuck's areas of practice are:

• Complex Business Litigation
• General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice - Trial and appellate practice, environmental, product liability, fraud, commercial, creditor’s rights, consumer finance, construction, and liens.
• Fidelity and Surety
• Business Law – Litigation, general counsel, management, operations, labor and employment.
• Employment Law – Litigation, Title VII, discrimination, sexual harassment, representation of management in issues including hiring and firing, policies and procedures, handbooks, wage and hour, compliance, and EEOC.
• Mediation and Arbitration - All areas.