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About Abby Chin
Abby Chin, Esq. is the Managing Partner at Cooper Elliott in Columbus, Ohio, specializing in complex civil litigation. Her practice focuses on wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, sexual abuse, civil rights violations, and malpractice cases. Known for meticulous case preparation and persuasive courtroom skills, she has secured multiple multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements, including a $27 million wrongful death verdict (2025) — one of the largest jury verdicts in Ohio that year — a $5.1 million employment breach verdict (2025), and a $1.61 million police excessive force verdict (2024).
Chin has been recognized in Columbus Business First's 40 Under 40 (2025), as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2025, 2026), and as a winner of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Joseph T. McLaughlin Award.
She is Past President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio and serves on the USA Swimming National Board of Review. She is also a member of the Ohio Association for Justice, American Association for Justice, Columbus Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.
She earned her Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Legal Writing & Economics from the University of Louisville. She is admitted to the State Bar of Ohio, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Elliott
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A Franklin County jury awarded $27 million to the estate of Gregory Coleman Jr., a 37-year-old bartender beaten to death by security workers outside the Julep bar in Columbus's Short North, finding the bar's ownership 80 percent at fault for negligent hiring and supervision.
A New Jersey court entered a $20 million judgment for Keziah Lewis, half of it punitive, against ride maker KMG for the 2017 Ohio State Fair Fire Ball failure that left her with catastrophic injuries.
Cincinnati's Metro transit agency paid $10 million to the estate of Beverly Kinney, an 87-year-old struck and killed in a marked crosswalk by a bus driver with a suspended license, and agreed to overhaul its driver training.
Cooper Elliott won a $6.525 million judgment against the former Pi Kappa Alpha president whose chapter hazed Bowling Green State University student Stone Foltz to death in 2021.
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