About Laura Grossfield
Laura Grossfield Birger began her legal training at Brown University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1990. She continued her studies at Yale Law School and received her J.D. in 1993. Those formative years put her in classrooms and clinics where legal theory met practice. The pedigree is conventional. The path she chose afterward was steady and oriented toward litigation and federal practice.
Her career has been tied to one firm identity. She is a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, where she has practiced for many years. At the firm she handled matters that required courtroom presence, briefing and appearances in appellate settings. Colleagues describe her as methodical in preparing cases and deliberate when presenting arguments, traits that matter in trial and appellate work.
Birger is admitted to practice in New York and holds admissions to the federal courts that handle many high-stakes disputes. She is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Those credentials reflect a practice that moves between state courts and federal forums.
Her practice has involved the sorts of litigation that require attention to procedural detail and the demands of federal practice. She has prepared and responded to motions, managed discovery processes, and argued matters before judges in federal districts and on appeal. The work combines research, written advocacy and oral argument. It requires careful case management and an ability to translate complex factual records into clear legal narratives.
Clients and opposing counsel have encountered her in courtrooms and in conference rooms. She works on cases that can range from commercial disputes to matters that touch on federal statutory and regulatory issues. The record shows a steady engagement with litigation tasks rather than a pivot to transactional or regulatory-only work. That background informs how she evaluates risk and frames litigation strategy.
She remains a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP and practices in New York state courts as well as in federal courts, including the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
