Christopher E. Coleman
Associate
Nashville
Practice Areas Include: Antitrust, Employment Law, Personal
Injury Torts
Bar Information
Admitted
to practice in Tennessee, 2006; U.S. District Court, Middle District
of Tennessee, 2006; Georgia, 2005.
Education
Northwestern University School
of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2003); Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, Northwestern
University Law Review (2002-2003); John Paul Stevens Public Interest
Fellowship (2002); Northwestern University (M.A., History, 2000); University
of Virginia (M.A., English, 1995); Vanderbilt University (B.A., magna
cum laude, 1993).
Prior Employment
Law Clerk to the Hon. Joan
Humphrey Lefkow, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2003-2005;
Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, Chicago, Illinois,
2002; Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, Montgomery, Alabama 1997-1998.
Publications
Contributing Author, "California
Class Actions Practice and Procedures" (Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Editor-in-Chief,
2007); Contributing Author, "California Class Actions Practice and Procedures" (Elizabeth
J. Cabraser, Editor-in-Chief, 2006); Co-Author, "Social Movements and
Social Change Litigation: Synergy in the Montgomery Bus Protest," Journal
of Law and Social Inquiry (Fall 2005); "Decades-Old Murder Case
Needs Review," Op-Ed, Chicago Sun-Times, February 2, 2003; "Fingerprints
and False Confessions: The William Heirens Case," Conference Presentation,
Conference on False Confessions, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern
University, Chicago, Illinois, March 2002.
Member
American Bar Association; Tennessee
Bar Association; Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association; Lawyers Association
for Women; Nashville Bar Association YLD (Board of Directors); American
Constitution Society, Nashville Lawyers' Chapter (Board of Directors).
About Lieff Cabraser
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