After spending eight years as a journalist in print and on television, covering crime and government for both the Savannah Morning News and WTOC-TV, Constance Cooper attended Savannah Law School, where she graduated second in her class while also working for civil plaintiff's firms during her studies. Constance earned her undergraduate degree from DePaul University in Chicago, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Arthur J. Schmitt Scholarship recipient.
Constance finds the network of contacts in the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry she cultivated as a journalist to be invaluable in her work as a lawyer. She uses the skills she mastered as a reporter – investigating, interviewing, networking, and negotiating – to zealously advocate for clients, bringing the same dogged determination to winning cases that she did to investigating corruption and breaking news stories.
Constance is a member of both the Georgia and South Carolina Bars. She is active in the Savannah Bar Association, the Savannah Trial Lawyers Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, and the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers.
While in law school, Constance earned CALI Awards in E-Discovery, Legal Writing, Evidence, Secured Transactions, Business Organizations, Health Care Law, Criminal Procedure, and Immigration Law. She served as Associate Editor of Savannah Law Review and also worked as a research assistant to Professor Eugene Mazo, an election law scholar, in editing "Democracy for the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America." She was a John E. Ryan Merit Scholar at Savannah Law School and also studied International Criminal Law and Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, Netherlands.
During her time as a journalist, Constance earned multiple awards, including two Georgia Associated Press Managing Editors awards and four Georgia Press Association awards.
Constance is married to Ash Paulk, and the two have three cats, Hunter S. Kitty, T.S. Eli-Cat, and Jean-Michel Basqui-Cat.
