He joined his father's firm in 1997, the year he was admitted, and has done nothing but injury work since.
Member - joined the firm in 1997
J. Aaron Cooke joined his father's firm in 1997, the year he was admitted to the Indiana bar, and has practised personal injury law in Lafayette since. He took his B.A. at Indiana University in 1993 with a Certificate of Studies in Public and Environmental Affairs, and his J.D. at Valparaiso University School of Law in 1996. He is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for both the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and is a member of the Brain Injury Association of Indiana - which is why catastrophic head and spinal cord work has its own footing at this firm. He is listed annually in Super Lawyers.
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Indiana, 1997
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
Valparaiso University School of Law, J.D., 1996
Indiana University, B.A., 1993, with a Certificate of Studies in Public and Environmental Affairs
Personal injury
Wrongful death
Auto accidents
Unsafe construction site accidents
Brain and spinal cord injuries
Most injury firms list brain and spinal cord injuries because they are a category of case. Membership of the Brain Injury Association of Indiana means keeping current with a field where the medicine is genuinely hard and where diagnosis is frequently missed. The difference between a competent settlement and a catastrophic one is often whether somebody understood what a traumatic brain injury does over thirty years rather than over six. It is why that practice area has its own footing at this firm.
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Admitted to the state bar the year after finishing at Valparaiso, and to the federal district courts for both the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, which matters in practice, because it is where a case goes when a defendant is out of state or the claim belongs in federal court.
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He came into the firm his father had been running for twenty-three years, into a practice that already did one thing. He has been there ever since, which means the continuity a client gets here is measured in decades rather than in staff turnover.
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The commitment behind the firm's catastrophic injury work. Brain and spinal cord cases turn on evidence about consequences that have not arrived yet, and building that evidence requires knowing which experts to ask and what to ask them.
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A peer-nominated, independently researched listing. Like every other credential on this site it is checkable at the source, and like every other credential it says nothing about what will happen in your case.
The firm’s other attorney is Jeffrey A. Cooke, member - founded the firm in 1974.
He has been admitted to the Indiana bar since 1997, and to the federal district courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Those are the published dates; no experience figure is calculated from them here.
It means somebody at this firm keeps current with a field where the science moves and where injuries are routinely under-diagnosed. It is not a certification and it is not a promise about an outcome, it is a reason the firm takes catastrophic head and spinal cases rather than referring them on.
Yes, the U.S. District Courts for both the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, in addition to the Indiana state bar.
One is published in full, from a client whose family was hit by an intoxicated driver, and it is reproduced verbatim on this site rather than trimmed to its best sentence. Directory aggregates put the firm at 4.9 across five reviews. That is a small sample and is presented as one.
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