In the latest installment in our Litigation Leaders series, meet J. Gordon Cooney Jr., who heads the nearly 1,000-member global litigation department at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

Based in Philadelphia, Cooney joined the firm 1986 and has a broad-based civil and commercial practice. He also spent 25 years working pro bono representing John Thompson, who was wrongly convicted in 1985 of murdering a New Orleans hotel executive, ultimately winning a not guilty verdict on re-trial.