Bio

Joe Conroy is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cooley and leads its board of directors. As partner, chairman and CEO, he sets and executes the firm’s strategy. Cooley has experienced tremendous success during Joe’s tenure as leader. The firm has grown from 300 to 1,000+ lawyers, building balanced practices on both coasts of the US and dynamically expanding into Europe and Asia. Joe was honored by The American Lawyer as the Transatlantic Law Firm Leader for 2016 at its second annual Transatlantic Legal Awards. Under Joe's leadership, Cooley has been named to Fortune's “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the last six years. Joe is committed to increasing diversity in legal services and is a member of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity (LCLD) and serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF). Prior to becoming CEO, Joe advised technology clients on corporate and securities transactions and technology procurement and transfer matters with particular emphasis on life sciences, software and telecommunications companies. His transactional corporate work primarily involved mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital, joint ventures and corporate finance. Prior to joining Cooley, Joe was a partner in the business practice group of Hunton & Williams, where he led the firm's corporate and securities team in its Northern Virginia office. Joe also founded and was president of CGC Software, a software development and consulting company providing microcomputer-based software and solutions to commercial and government entities. Joe's professional affiliations include the Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association (Business Law Section), Virginia Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.