GM Recall Shines Light on Lawyer – The Daily Report
Lance Cooper’s Case settled confidentially, but his findings about a GM ignition part led to massive recall
By Kathy Tucker
“It was a long, hard journey getting at the truth,” Cooper said in an interview after the congressional hearings. “It’s frankly a shocking story when you look back at how much GM knew and when they knew it.”
These days, most of Cooper’s work is building on what he learned from his now-famous case in Cobb County State Court, Melton v. GM. The revelations in documents and depositions that the company knew about the fault in the ignition switch and hid it have let loose waves of criticism at the carmaker.