Monty Cooper

He has also counseled clients in non-litigation matters, including regulatory and legislative issues affecting renewable energy and mining companies and negotiations with state environmental agencies across the country concerning environmental and property-transfer laws.  

Monty regularly shares his insights, including publishing articles and speaking on panels across the country concerning a wide variety of topics affecting his clients, including environmental and mining matters, changes in the U.S. tax code that affect multinational corporations regarding environmental enforcement, and updates concerning environmental justice.

Public Service, Education, and Recognition

Monty is active in his community. He is a former chairman of the board of directors for the Redevelopment Authority (RDA) of Prince George’s County, MD, which works to redevelop, revitalize, and preserve targeted communities within the Washington, D.C. Beltway.

Monty received a B.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University, where he served as a writing center tutor at the university's Writing Center. While attending the College of William and Mary Law School, he was a notes editor for the William and Mary Law Review, a member of the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and a Benjamin Rush Scholar. 

After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Patrick Michael Duffy of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. 

While in private practice, he has been honored numerous times, including twice on Thomson Reuters’s list of “Stand-out Lawyers,” most recently in 2025. In 2021, Monty received the ABA-SEER Chair Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Section because of his work leading the Section’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. He has also received a Certificate in Sustainable Capitalism & ESG Online from Berkeley Law Executive Education.

He is a member of the bars of Maryland, the District of Columbia, and South Carolina.