Mallory M. Cooney

Mallory Cooney is an associate in the Investigations, Enforcement, and White Collar practice group. She focuses her practice on government investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, internal investigations, and complex litigation matters at the trial and appellate level.

Mallory represents individuals, broker-dealers, public companies, and various entities before state and federal regulators and enforcement authorities. These include the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Customs & Border Protection (CBP), and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Mallory advises and represents individuals, public companies, and various entities in complex litigation matters before federal and state courts throughout the United States. Mallory takes key roles in many components of civil litigation, such as authoring pleadings and motions, drafting and reviewing discovery, taking and defending depositions, facilitating settlement negotiations and mediations, and advocating for clients in the courtroom.

Mallory is committed to service, and is actively involved in pro bono engagements, including advocating for victims of human trafficking, drafting amicus briefs in death penalty appeals across the country and before the United States Supreme Court, and serving on the Management Committee overseeing the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, a global K&L Gates pro bono project providing legal services to victims of nonconsensual pornography (i.e., “revenge porn”) when their sexually explicit images are distributed and displayed online without consent. Mallory has also been named the Associate Pro Bono Coordinator for the K&L Gates Miami office, and utilizes her position to increase pro bono involvement amongst her colleagues.

Mallory was honored with the Florida Bar’s 2024 Lynn Futch Most Productive Young Lawyer’s Award. She has been selected to the 2022 and 2023 Miami Super Lawyers Rising Star lists and the Miami-Dade Bar's 2023 40 under 40. Mallory is President-Elect of the Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, serves annually on both the Host Committee for the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Annual Meeting and the Planning Committee for the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade's Raise the Bar event, and is the Associate Chair of the Miami office's Women in the Profession Committee.