Debtor / Creditor Law, Litigation, Health Care, and Intellectual Property Practice Areas
David Cocke has served as counsel for secured creditors, debtors, unsecured creditors committees, and bankruptcy trustees in both business liquidations and reorganizations, and he has litigated many complex business cases in federal, state and bankruptcy courts. This extensive experience gives him a unique ability to serve his clients' bankruptcy and litigation needs.
Mr. Cocke practices areas of commercial litigation, health care, bankruptcy, and election law.
He graduated from Yale University in 1967 with a B.A. and from Harvard in 1973 with a doctor of jurisprudence. While at Harvard Law School he was managing editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and editor of the Harvard Law Record. From 1973 to 1974 he was law clerk to the Hon. Robert M. McRae, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. From 1987 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2001 he served as chairman of the Shelby County Democratic Party. He is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Memphis Bar Associations, and is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. In 2007 he served as the citizen member of the Shelby County Commission's Ad Hoc Committee to rewrite the county's ethics ordinances. He was appointed by Governor Bredesen to the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, where he serves as West Tennessee vice president. He is listed in the current editions of Best Lawyers in America and Superlawyers.
Mr. Cocke is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the bankruptcy courts in each of these districts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits.
Education Harvard University (J.D., 1973)
Yale University (B.A., 1967)
Admitted to Practice Tennessee, 1973
Contactphone: 901.767.1234
fax: 901.767.2803
email: dcocke@evanspetree.com
