Dana Cooper

Dana Cooper, also identified as Dana Brooks Cooper and professionally as Dana Brooks, is a personal injury attorney with Fasig Brooks in Tallahassee, Florida. The Florida Bar lists her as Dana Nelson Brooks, a partner/shareholder eligible to practice in Florida.

Her professional background includes work on both the legal and social-services sides of disputes. Before becoming an attorney, she worked as a paralegal, law firm administrator and mental health counselor, and served as a Florida Supreme Court certified family law mediator. Her paralegal experience included medical malpractice defense.

Brooks studied at Pensacola Junior College and Tallahassee Community College before completing a Bachelor of Science in Social Work at Florida State University, graduating cum laude. She earned a master’s degree in social work there in 2003. In December 2007, she completed her Florida State law degree magna cum laude; she is also a member of the Order of the Coif.

Her educational activities have included coaching Florida State’s law school mock trial team and returning to its torts classroom as a guest lecturer in 2013, 2014 and 2015. She delivered the College of Social Work’s commencement address in December 2018. Beyond the university, Brooks has served as president of the Capital City Justice Association and on the board of America’s Second Harvest of the Big Bend. Her speaking engagements included a January 2019 presentation to the Government Bar Association on gender issues in the workplace.