Meet your attorney
Omar A. Cooper, Esq.
A Georgia personal-injury and mass-tort practice built on one premise: the person who signs your case should be the person who reads your file.
Omar A. Cooper is the founding attorney of Village Counsel Law Firm, a plaintiff-side personal-injury and mass-tort practice in downtown Atlanta. He holds a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law and was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia on September 8, 2023, where he is active and in good standing.
- Law school
- Juris Doctor, Northwestern University School of Law
- Bar admission
- State Bar of Georgia, admitted September 8, 2023 — active, in good standing.Verify on the State Bar member directory
- Practice
- Plaintiff-side personal injury, wrongful death and catastrophic injury in Georgia; national mass-tort litigation
- Office
- 260 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
The design
Why the firm is small on purpose.
There is a version of personal-injury practice that runs on volume: television advertising at the front, a call center in the middle, and a case manager the client speaks to for two years without ever meeting the lawyer. It is a legitimate business. It is not this one.
Village Counsel keeps a deliberately narrow docket so that the attorney handling a case is the attorney who read the medical records, watched the intersection video, and decided what the claim is worth. When an adjuster calls, the person answering knows the file. That is the whole design.
It also means we say no. If a matter belongs with a firm that has a specialist practice, or if the honest answer is that you do not need a lawyer at all, we will tell you in the first conversation rather than the third month.
What Omar handles personally
Every case, at every stage.
In practice that means:
The initial review
Deciding whether there is a claim — and saying so plainly, in the first conversation.
The liability theory
Who is responsible, and under which Georgia rule.
The damages workup
Medical records, wage loss, future care, and the human cost that does not appear on a bill.
The demand and negotiation
A documented demand to the insurer, and the negotiation that follows.
The decision
Made with you, not for you: whether to accept an offer or file suit.
Stated plainly
A young firm.
Village Counsel is a new practice — Omar was admitted in 2023, and this site does not claim decades of experience, a settlement scoreboard, or awards the firm has not been given. What it claims is verifiable: the law school, the bar admission and its standing, the address, and who does the work.
If a firm's track record matters to you — and it reasonably might — ask about it on the call. You will get a direct answer.
Verify: State Bar of Georgia member directory