James P. Cooney, III

James P. Cooney, III

Jim Cooney was one of the defense lawyers who represented Alan Gell, a death row inmate who became the 113th person freed from death row. Alan Gell was acquitted on February 18 2004. Cooney represented Gell pro bono and received the North Carolina Bar Association's 2004 William L. Thorp Pro Bono Award. He also represented Reade Seligmann, one of the three Duke University men's lacrosse players who was falsely accused of rape during the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case.

Cooney is a 1979 graduate of Duke University and a 1982 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. He practices law at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC in Charlotte, North Carolina.


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