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"A fascinating account of an extraordinary life in the law."

Hon Judith S, Kaye

Michael A. Cooper has spent his entire 56-year professional life with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He was Managing Partner of the Litigation Group from 1978 to 1985 and for many years oversaw the Firm's pro bono work.. His litigation experience has been wide-ranging: from antidumping and antitrust to derivative suits, eminent domain, insurance, securities and voting rights.

Mike has served the legal profession in several capacities. He has been President of the New York City Bar Association and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also been devoted to pro bono work, serving as President of The Legal Aid Society, founding Board Chair of Pro Bono Net, Co-Chair of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under and a director of Volunteers of Legal Service and the Vance Center. He represented a Guantanamo detainee from 2005 to 2015. For all his professional endeavors, Mike received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Lawyer.

Michael Cooper's An Advocate's Journey is an eloquent account and heartfelt plea for continuation of the three-dimensional lawyer: service to the client; service in support of the public interest; and service to the profession.

In clear and succinct prose devoid of legal jargon, the author takes readers through a number of his most memorable, and often complicated, legal matters. The reader feels the high of his victories and the low of his occasional defeats. It is a testament to his humanity that there are many heroes described in An Advocate's Journey, often including opposing counsel, and very few villains.

H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

In An Advocate's Journey, Michael Cooper artfully presents a penetrating reminder of the meaning of professionalism, together with a fascinating inside look at the conduct of major litigation in one of America's mostly highly regarded law firms. But most of all, Journey is a love story – a captivating rendering by a dedicated professional in love with the law. John Martel, Writer and Novelist

“An Advocate's Journey” is at once a narrative documenting transformations in law practice over the past half-century, an education in sophisticated litigation, and a window into vital public issues ranging from voting rights to Guantanamo detention arising during the war on terror. It is also an engaging and memorable conversation with an extraordinarily smart, generous and wise human being who shares the great life in the law he forged. Michael Cooper's journey is a gift for anyone interested in solving human problems, in U.S. history since World War II, in the practice of law, and in struggles for justice.

Martha Minnow, Dean, Harvard Law School

All the imaginative ways a fun-loving child creates to delay Going to Bed!

When will Flora ever go to sleep? Not until she's done Flim-Flamming her parents!

Charlie Doane is among the most infectious prose-poets of today's marine literature. For more than twenty years his keen eye, trenchant wit, and off-center perspective have been delighting us in a voice that could never be confused for any other. In The Sea Is Not Full Charlie takes us to sea on several memorable voyages—some bound for the bottom, some for the heart of darkness, and some for the ages. Populated by an entertaining cast of wharf-rats, hucksters, even a real-deal guru or two, his stories are page-turners that'll surely stir the wanderlust in you.

Tim Murphy, Editor at Large, Cruising World magazine

From the Intrroduction

“Since 0230 that morning, Karina had been enveloped in thick fog. The sky was completely obscured. Jack's “Naviguesser” Mike couldn't take any sights. He did have a thermometer aboard, an essential piece of equipment for sailors traversing the Gulf Stream. Karina didn't carry the convenient hard-wired digital type used today. Instead he had a thermometer that he dipped in a bucket of seawater hoisted aboard for the purpose. The latest measurement showed that the ocean water temperature was beginning to rise. This was bad. Simultaneously rising wind speed and temperature are a combination Bermuda-bound sailors don't like to see. It means heavy wind would combine with current, unpredictable squalls, and often tumultuous heavy seas in the Gulf Stream. If the wind blew strongly counter to the current, waves could build to a frightening size. By 0600 Karina was straining under sustained winds of 35 knots, with gusts up to 40. Jack and his friends had furled the mizzen and genoa, reefed the main, and hanked on a working jib. At 1100, the water temperature spiked to 77 degrees; they were in the Stream. Moments later, Karina was knocked down on her beam ends by an enormous sea driven by a powerful Gulf Stream squall. Spreaders scraped the tops of waves. The RDF instrument came loose and crashed across the now vertical cabin sole. Amazingly, the beast still functioned when it was called on later in the race as Karina approached Bermuda.”

"Writer-sailor Mark Gabrielson's new book is a fine, often surprising sea story of men and women who share a distinctively contrarian understanding of what sailing really should be—an adventure by amateur sailors in normal cruising boats making their damp, exciting way across rough seas to a beautiful, beckoning, remote destination."--John Rousmaniere author of Fastnet Force 10 and the Anappolis Book of Seamanship