Monika G. Cooper | Fort Worth Estate Lawyer

Ms. Monika G. Cooper

Ms. Monika G. Cooper

Experience: 28 years
Language(s): English

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About Monika

Monika Cooper has worked closely with clients in defending a broad spectrum of cases involving business torts and commercial litigation, professional liability, and fiduciary litigation and wills & trust litigation.

She is on the board of directors of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel (TADC) and serves as a committee chairperson and committee member for the State of Texas District 7 Grievance Committee.

Within the community, Monika organized the Brock Youth Football program and served on its Board of Directors from 2008-2011.  Since moving to Aledo, Texas, she has served her community as a member of the Aledo ISD 2025 Committee and she has formerly been a guardian through Guardianship Services, Inc.  If Monika is not working or serving her community, she participates with her children in the Aledo FFA chapter and Aledo Football program.

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Experience

Partner

Moses Palmer & Howell LLP

Present

Fort Worth, TX

Admission

Verified Texas

1997

Education

University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelors

1992

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • Texas Association of Defense Counsel Director
    2012 - Present
  • Texas State Bar District 7, Grievance Committee Member
    2012 - Present
  • Tarrant County Probate Bar Association Member
    2012 - Present
  • Parker County Bar Association Member
    2012 - Present
  • American Bar Association | Member
  • Tarrant County Bar Association | Member
  • State Bar of Texas | Member
  • Lawyers Professional Liability Consortium-ABA Member
    2011 - 2013
Honors / Awards
  • Monika is rated by her peers as an AV Preeminent (5.0), the highest rating standard, by Martindale-Hubbell®. She has also been rated as a Top-Rated Lawyer in Commercial Litigation by Martindale-Hubbell®. She has been recognized on multiple occasions, as a Rising Star, by Thomson Reuters () and a “Texas Super Lawyer”, by Thomson Reuters (, ), which both have appeared in Texas Monthly magazine and she consistently has been named as a “Top Attorney” by Fort Worth, Texas () magazine. She has received the distinguished 40 Under 40 Honoree, from the Fort Worth Business Press (). She is an Eldon Mahon Inns of Court, Barrister.
    2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2015 / 2016 / 2008-2019 / 2006

Notable Work

Publications

She has authored the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Professional Liability Update, since the Spring of and has written and ed papers about “Understanding and Working Through the Disciplinary Process” to the Texas Association of Defense Counsel in Washington, D.C., ; Texas Association of Defense Counsel in Fort Worth, TX, ; Tarrant County Probate Section, Litigation Seminar, and the Tarrant County Bar Association, Brown Bag Seminar Series, Oct. . She has also written and ed a paper on “Discovery: The Process of Gathering Facts”, to the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association, Litigation Seminar, .

2014 / present / 2014 / 2016 / 2014 / 2014 / present / 2016