Hilarie Laing

Cooley successfully represented Optotraffic, an industry leader in automated traffic enforcement and public safety technology, in defeating a putative class action alleging fraud, racketeering, deceptive trade practices and other tort claims in connection with the company’s lawful collection of traffic enforcement fees on behalf of municipalities and local law enforcement agencies in the state of Georgia. Instead of opposing Optotraffic’s motion to dismiss, the plaintiff dismissed her suit once again, and under the two-dismissal rule, this dismisses her claims with prejudice. Litigators David Mills and Matt Nguyen led the Cooley team representing Optotraffic, which also included Jim Santel, Mel Gayton, Maddie Ahlers and Hilarie Laing.

The case is Lavender v. Optotraffic, LLC before the Northern District of Georgia, Case No.: 1:25-cv-01255.

Cooley today filed an amicus brief on behalf of social and racial justice nonprofits in TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland (US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit) challenging the federal legislation banning TikTok – a modern-day digital town square used by more than 150 million US users to engage in First Amendment-protected expression – on free speech and equal protection grounds.

Cooley, alongside co-counsel Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, filed amicus briefs on behalf of 50+ current and former chief information security officers and cybersecurity organizations in Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corp. and Timothy G. Brown, which is pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Cooley secured a product line-saving trademark victory for Hailey Rhode Bieber and her companies, Rhodedeodato and HRBeauty, on July 22 when the US District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Rhode NYC’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin Bieber from offering her recently launched skin care line under the RHODE mark. Lawyers Michael Rhodes, Brendan Hughes, and Rebecca Givner-Forbes are leading the Cooley team advising Bieber and her companies.

Nine plaintiffs, who were victims of a coordinated attack by white supremacists during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, won a historic victory in the landmark federal lawsuit Sines v. Kessler. A Cooley team led by Alan Levine, David Mills and Bob Cahill acted pro bono on behalf of the plaintiffs alongside Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Woods Rogers.