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About Robert C. Cooney
Robert (Bobby) C. Cooney was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Bobby attended college at Georgetown University, and law school at the Loyola University of Chicago. After clerking for a major mass tort personal injury firm in New York City, he has been with Cooney and Conway devoting a significant portion of his practice to representing Mesothelioma victims and other victims of asbestos disease.
He also represents other individuals who have sustained injuries or wrongful death resulting from exposure to toxic substances and conduct. He is admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooney & Conway
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A Madison County jury awarded James Hutcheson $34.1 million after he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure during contract work at Shell Oil's Wood River, Illinois refinery in the 1950s and 1960s.
Chicago agreed to pay $20 million to the families of Fausto Manzera and Andrew Cazares, two men killed in 2009 when off-duty detective Joseph Frugoli struck their disabled vehicle on the Dan Ryan Expressway with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit, after trial evidence exposed the department's years-long failure to discipline Frugoli for prior suspected drunk driving.
A Delaware jury returned a unanimous $9 million verdict on July 23, 2025, in the first case ever tried over asbestos-contaminated shotgun shells, holding DuPont and Remington's successor liable for the mesothelioma death of Eugene Schoepke, an 84-year-old Illinois farmer and lifelong hunter.
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