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Overview
Jennifer Coleman is a trial lawyer with an active practice in intellectual property, labor and employment, and complex litigation cases. Her experience includes patent damages, trade secret misappropriation, remediation, single plaintiff and class action wage and hour controversies, unfair competition and employee mobility matters.
Jen also handles employment disputes involving claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; leaves of absences; employment policies and procedures; employee discipline; hiring practices; workplace violence; and fraud relating to complex financial transactions. She regularly advises and counsels employers of all sizes on various day-to-day legal issues.
Adding to a diverse practice, Jen represents clients with respect to GDPR compliance issues and complex remediation issues. She has been involved in cases with diverse technologies, ranging from customer management AI software to electronic financial transactions and real-time web transactions from web applications and wireless modems to wireless local area network peripheral control.
Jen additionally has significant experience with federal and state court e-discovery issues and has received an LPM LaunchPad Certificate in Fundamentals of Legal Project Management and an Advanced Certificate of Achievement in the LPM Institute Legal Project Management Advanced Course. Her legal background includes criminal defense trial experience through working on various pro bono felony cases with the Santa Clara (California) County Public Defender’s Office, including unlawful practice of medicine without a license, tax fraud, and robbery.
Credentials
Education
- Creighton University School of Law (J.D.)
- Saint Louis University (B.A.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Alum Rock Counseling Center, Advisory Board Member
- CreaTV San Jose, Board of Directors, 2012-2019
- Executive Committee, Secretary, 2017-2019
- The Sedona Conference, 2016-present
- Working Group Series Leadership Council, 2022-present
- Steering Committee for Working Group (WG) 1, Electronic Document Retention & Production, 2019-2021
- Working Group (WG) 1, Electronic Document Retention, 2016-present
- Working Group (WG) 12, Trade Secrets, 2018-present
- EDRM Global Advisory Council, 2019-present
- EDRM Project
- AI Project
- American Bar Association
- Santa Clara Bar Association
- Golden Gate University School of Law, Intro to eDiscovery, Adjunct Professor, 2018-2019
- Bar Association of San Francisco, Barristers Club; Social Events & Networking Committee Member, 2009, 2011
- Committee Co-Chair 2011
- “Privacy & Employment,” Silicon Legal Strategy, January 2024
- The Sedona Conference, Primer on Crafting eDiscovery Requests with “Reasonable Particularity,” 23 Sedona Conf. J. 337, 2022
- “Voices from the Bench: The Judicial Perspective for 2021 and Beyond,” the Sedona Conference, WG1 Annual Meeting, October 2021
- “eDiscovery Implications of the Internet of Things (IoT),” The Sedona Conference, WG1 Annual Meeting, October 2021
- “Managing Legal Risk in the Hiring & Onboarding Process,” March 2021
- “Rules of Engagement: What Every Startup Needs to Know about Labor Laws & Compliance,” Silicon Valley Forum Startup & Venture Capital Club, January 2021
- “Electronic Document Retention & Production,” Working Group Series Leadership Council, Steering Committee for Working Group (WG) 1, 2019-2021
- “Preserving, Collecting and Protecting Data from Non-Traditional Sources,” The 14th Annual Sedona Conference Institute: eDiscovery, Data Privacy, and Security, March 2020
- “Practical Guidelines on Managing Legal Holds: New Sedona Guidelines, Amendments to the Federal Rules and More,” Today’s General Counsel, February 2019
- “How Not to Mess Up a Litigation Hold Webinar,” Corporate Counsel Business Journal, January 2019
- “How Not to Mess Up a Litigation Hold Webinar,” Today’s General Counsel, September 2018
- “Litigating at the Intersection of Sedona Principle 6 and Cooperation & Transparency: Guidance on how to find the right balance,” The Sedona Conference WG1 Annual Meeting, October 2018
- Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34(b)(2) Primer: Practice Pointers for Responding to Discovery Requests, 19 Sedona Conf. J. 447, 2018
- “Rule 34 Primer: The rules changed but only some practitioners took note. Here’s how your Rule 34 obligations have really changed,” The Sedona Conference, WG1 Annual Meeting, November 2017
- “Examining Amended Rule 34,” Working Group Series Leadership Council, WG1 Midyear Meeting, May 2017
- “Are Your Former Employees Still Accessing Your IT? That’s Not OK and What You Need to Do to Stop It,” Association of Corporate Counsel, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, October 2017
- “Bringing Them in And Helping Them Out: How to Protect Trade Secrets (And Your Company) With Employee Moves,” Association of Corporate Counsel, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, March 2017