Citing an inability to grow in its current location, Cooney Law Offices PS will leave its home of 66 years in the Garland Business District, at 910 W. Garland, and relocate next year to the northeast corner of Washington Street and Indiana Avenue.

The Cooney family started the practice in the Garland District in 1949.

“I grew up here. This is where I came after school,” says managing partner Dallas Cooney.

His grandfather, John “Jack” Cooney, founded the firm along with other siblings. Dallas Cooney says his uncle, who also was named John Cooney, later ran the office. He says his uncle also served as a Spokane County District Court judge during the 1970s.

Dallas Cooney and his father, Jim Cooney, now own and operate the firm, he says. One of Dallas Cooney’s cousins, John O. Cooney, currently is serving as a Spokane County Superior Court judge. 

The firm, which offers legal services in the areas of personal injury, criminal defense, family law, and wills, trusts, and probate, will move to 330 W. Indiana during the first quarter next year. Cooney says the firm has entered a 10-year lease with 330 Indy LLC, an investment group sponsored by Craven Co., a Spokane-based real estate development firm that purchased the building on Indiana and an adjacent vacant lot this year with the Cooney Law Offices in mind.

Mike Craven, principal in Craven Co., said in a press release, “While we will use most of the existing structure, for all intents and purposes we are delivering a brand new office building ‘turn-key’ to the Cooneys.”

Dallas Cooney says the new location will give the firm room to grow. The law firm’s seven full-time attorneys and nine-member, non-attorney support staff will occupy 5,100 square feet of space in the building, he says.

“We’ve expanded over the years into four separate but connected buildings,” he says. “Managing growth is a good problem to have, but expansion in our current location just isn’t possible. It’s time for a new home.”

Cooney and Craven worked together for more than a year to select the new site and to design the space to meet the firm’s current needs. 

Architecture and interior design firm Uptic Studios Inc., of Spokane, is designing interior improvements to the space.

Dallas Cooney says final interior costs for the new building have yet to be determined.