In Memoriam - a Remembrance of JOHN D. COONEY
by Patrick A. Salvi II
John D. Cooney: Titan of the Plaintiff's Bar
I am saddened to be writing consecutive Vested Interest President Pages celebrating the lives of two of our greatest stalwarts. Our organization recently lost John Cooney. John was ITLA’s president from 2014-2015. While my focus below will be on John’s contribution to ITLA and its members, it should be lost on no one that John was an outstanding and generous man, husband, father, and friend, in addition to being a pillar at his firm, Cooney & Conway, as an exemplar boss, partner, and mentor. Find people who knew John and ask about him. Watch their faces light up.
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