Matthew Cooper

Practice Areas: Litigation; Natural Resources; Public Utilities; Real Property; Commercial Transactions.

Admitted: 2001, Washington State (inactive); 2003, Alaska and U.S. District Court, District of Alaska.

Law School: University of Washington, J.D. 2001.

College: University of Puget Sound, B.A. 1998.

Member: Alaska, Washington State, American and Tanana Valley Bar Associations.

Biography: Author: The Role of Positive Comity in U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Against Japanese Firms: A Mixed Review, 10 Pac. Rim L. & Pol'y J. 383 (March 2001); Co-author: Volunteer's Legal Handbook; Law clerk for Judge Niesje Steinkruger, Superior Court, Fairbanks, AK 2001-2003.

Trials: In the Matter of the Revenue Requirement and Cost of Service Studies, Filed by Golden Heart Utilities, Inc. and College Utilities Corporation, Inc. as Tariff Revisions TA29-118 and TA82-97 for Water Public Utility Service, Docket U-05-043 -- Successfully represented a utility customer in a proceeding before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in a challenge to a water utility rate design.

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