former Tennessee AG Robert E. Cooper, Jr. Joins Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC is pleased to announce that former Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr. has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s interdisciplinary Compliance & Government Investigations Practice Group to represent clients nationwide on matters related to healthcare fraud and abuse, including Medicaid fraud, state false claims acts, and nonprofit regulation. Prior to his career as a public servant, Cooper was a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims, which he joined in 1984, and practiced in the areas of business and regulatory litigation and constitutional law until he joined Governor Bredesen in 2003.