Llezlie Green Coleman Llezlie Green Coleman, an Associate at Cohen Milstein, joined the Firm in 2004 and is a member of the Civil Rights & Employment practice group.
Ms. Coleman currently is involved in Keepseagle v. Veneman (D.D.C.), where plaintiffs allege the USDA discriminated in granting access to and servicing of farm loans to Native American farmers and ranchers; Chase v. AIMCO, alleging that the U.S.’s largest apartment management company violates the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay its maintenance employees for time spent responding to emergency tenant service requests; and Amos v. GEICO, alleging GEICO discriminates against African-Americans through its use of occupation and level of education in setting automobile insurance rates. Ms. Coleman is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Washington Council of Lawyers. She is co-chair of the ABA's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Legal Profession. Before joining Cohen Milstein, Ms. Coleman worked for Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, where she focused on complex litigation and securities investigations and worked on various civil rights and international human rights pro bono projects. Ms. Coleman then clerked for the Honorable Alexander Williams, Jr. on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Ms. Coleman graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Government (cum laude, 1997) and Columbia Law School (J.D., 2002), where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. At Columbia, Ms. Coleman was active in the Black Law Students Association, participated in the Human Rights Clinic, and served as an Articles Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She authored a Note, Gender Hate Propaganda and Sexual Violence in the Rwandan Genocide: An Argument for Intersectionality in International Law, 33 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 733 (2002). While in law school, Ms. Coleman interned at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Ms. Coleman is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. Contact: lgreen@cmht.com Practice Area: |
