Kate Cook

Kate Cook is a partner at Cook Law Group, LLC in Gainesville, Georgia. Her work at the firm involves researching and writing briefs in complex litigation, along with oral argument at the trial and appellate levels. She and Matthew E. Cook established the firm in 2013.

Cook studied Russian language and literature at the University of the South, earning her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in 1998. A Biehl Grant supported her study of urban housing privatization in Russia in 1997. She went on to the Walter F. George School of Law as a Woodruff Scholar and received her J.D. magna cum laude in 2002.

Her first position after law school was a clerkship with U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land in the Middle District of Georgia’s Columbus Division. From 2002 to 2004, she researched and drafted internal memoranda and orders and assisted with trials and hearings. Nine years at Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer in Columbus followed. There, she prepared trial and appellate briefs and managed filed cases, among them business disputes and class actions.

In addition to trial-court arguments, Cook has argued before Georgia’s Court of Appeals and Supreme Court and the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Her published work includes co-authored Mercer Law Review articles on trial practice and procedure. She also taught Advanced Contracts Drafting as an adjunct professor at the Walter F. George School of Law from 2013 to 2016.