Copeland Cook prides itself on providing quality legal representation to the transportation industry in a cost-efficient manner. Our transportation attorneys have both the trial experience and the specialized knowledge necessary to represent motor carriers, brokers, and private fleet operators, both directly and through their insurers. Copeland Cook provides each client with expedient case analysis, a thorough litigation plan, and practical identification of a resolution strategy. Copeland Cook’s attorneys are fully prepared to handle the various civil, criminal, and regulatory matters that routinely accompany transportation matters. This type of litigation requires knowledge of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, transportation standards of care, and accident investigation and reconstruction involving articulated commercial vehicles. Because many commercial vehicle accidents involve death or catastrophic injury, those bringing such claims are increasingly more knowledgeable and aggressive than in the past. Consequently, Copeland Cook’s understanding of cutting-edge enterprise content management (ECM) technology, document retention and spoliation are vital to today's defense of transportation matters.
Copeland Cook recognizes the need to quickly preserve and document critical evidence following an accident, identify and interview witnesses, and provide counsel to the motor carrier and its driver. In order to provide rapid service to its clients in the event of an accident, our transportation attorneys have created a Rapid Response Team that consists of transportation attorneys, an accident reconstructionist, an independent adjuster, and an attorney who focuses in criminal defense, should the need arise. The Rapid Response Team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to assist whenever there is an accident or when counsel is needed. Copeland Cook’s Rapid Response Team contacts include James R. Moore, Jr., R. Eric Toney,Michael C. Gatling and Price W. Donahoo.
With offices in three locations in Mississippi, Copeland Cook’s attorneys can quickly evaluate and handle an accident anywhere in the state of Mississippi. Further, with attorneys licensed to practice in Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee, Copeland Cook has also defended claims arising out of motor carrier accidents occurring outside of Mississippi as well.
Copeland Cook’s transportation attorneys are active in transportation industry-related organizations such as the USLAW Transportation Group, Transportation Lawyers Association (TLA), Mississippi Trucking Association (MTA), American Trucking Association (ATA), and the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Trucking Law Section.
