About Cyclone
Cyclone Covey is a senior partner at Kneupper & Covey PC, a consumer protection law firm with offices in Duluth, Georgia, and Huntington Beach, California. He has been practicing law since 2003, focusing on consumer protection, class actions, construction law, contracts, litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He is admitted to the State Bar of Georgia and the State Bar of California. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Wake Forest University in 2000 and his Juris Doctor with honors from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2003. During law school, he was co-captain of the Trial Team.
After law school, Cyclone began his career in complex commercial construction litigation at Griffin, Cochrane, and Marshall in Atlanta, Georgia. In his first two years as an associate, he was lead chair in a major commercial arbitration, second chair in a two-week jury trial in Georgia Superior Court. The attorney selected to brief and argue a major summary judgment case in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2006, he left Griffin, Cochrane, and Marshall to join his family’s wholesale auto auction business, Verastar. He served as the company’s General Counsel and Director of Operations until Verastar was sold to Insurance Auto Auctions in 2008.
After the sale, Cyclone acted as both an entrepreneur and general counsel for several companies, including Clearwave Corporation, AgileLaw, ClickChefs, and Valens Global. In 2019, Cyclone co-founded Kneupper & Covey with Kevin Kneupper. The firm is dedicated to serving consumers who have been victimized by fraud or who have suffered wrongs from companies based on false advertising, breach of warranty, breach of contract, or by violating state and federal consumer protection laws. Kneupper & Covey has handled cases involving the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting, Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, RICO (racketeering), and numerous state consumer protection laws. Cyclone's experience in founding companies, investing, running operations, and handling legal issues has given him many experience.
As general counsel, he has worked on issues as diverse as insurance coverage, HIPAA compliance, personal injury claims, employment law, intellectual property, contract law, product liability, product warranty, tax compliance, property rights, zoning laws. Numerous other fields.
