Catherine Coleman

Academic Support Counselor and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law

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ccoleman@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-9545
Room: 312

Catherine Coleman joined USC Law in Fall 2004. She is an academic support counselor and adjunct assistant professor of law.

Ms. Coleman was formerly an associate, partner, managing partner and of counsel with Kinsella, Boesch, Fujikawa & Towle in L.A., practicing civil litigation with an emphasis on writing at all stages. She was with the firm for 15 years. From 1980-83 Ms. Coleman was a trial attorney with the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., handling cases that were the first court challenges to new federal programs. She previously clerked for The Honorable Herbert F. Murray, judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

A graduate of Stanford University, Ms. Coleman received her J.D. from Harvard University, where she was senior comments editor of the Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review and published “Re-Emergence of a Controversy: Enforcing Acreage Limitation” (Harvard Environmental Law Review, 1978).