Overview

Mr. Greg Coleman is a Senior Partner of Milberg with over 30 years of trial and appellate experience. Mr. Coleman’s practice focuses on class actions, products liability, medical malpractice, personal injury, complex multi-district litigation, complex environmental litigation, toxic torts, premises liability, ERISA, ERISA class actions, and drug and medical device litigation.

A nationally distinguished attorney, Mr. Coleman has been and is currently involved in complex product liability and drug product liability litigation, having tried more than one hundred (110) jury trials and countless other bench trials during his career. He has tried jury trials in several states and has been admitted pro hac vice in complex matters around the country.

Leadership Roles

• Adkisson et al v Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc – Lead Counsel for more than 230 individual plaintiffs involving the largest environmental disaster in the United States resulting from the 2008 coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee – the case went up to the 6th Circuit twice, with rulings in the plaintiffs’ favor, and was in the Tennessee Supreme Court at the time of settlement – Confidential settlement was ultimately reached in June 2023
• Co-Lead Counsel in a defective products case against Electrolux where he and co-counsel successfully obtained a settlement on behalf of a class of more than one million members regarding defectively manufactured dryers. The settlement resulted in an expected utilization settlement value of over $35 million
• Lead Trial Counsel in an ERISA class action against AK Steel Corporation where he successfully obtained a $178.6 million settlement on behalf of a class of over 3,000 retirees of AK Steels Butler Works Plant in Pennsylvania in 2011
• Lead Trial Counsel in an ERISA class action case against AK Steel Corporation where he successfully obtained a $15.8 million settlement on behalf of a class of over 250 retirees of AK Steels Zanesville Works Plant in Ohio in 2012
• Jenkins v. Keeble, Davidson County – Lead Counsel in a week-long trucking accident trial where he obtained the largest negligence verdict in the state of Tennessee for 2009
• Co-Lead Counsel in a class action case involving Jewelry Television
• Davis v. Planet Hollywood Las Vegas – Co-Lead Counsel in a Fair Labor Standards Act case against Westgate Resorts in U.S.D.C., District of Nevada, which has been settled
• Watson v. Westgate Resorts, Inc. – Co-Lead Counsel in a Fair Labor Standards Act case against Westgate Resorts in U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Tennessee, which has been settled

…The end result occurred largely, if not fully, attributable to the diligence, determination, hard work of plaintiffs’ counsel, who were vigorously contested, as the company was represented by extraordinary lawyers.

-Judge Timothy S. Black

Southern District of Ohio, Western Division

Reported Cases

• West v. East Tennessee Pioneer Oil Co., 172 S.W. 3d 545 – Tennessee Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court first ruled a convenience store had a legal duty to the plaintiffs for selling gas to an obviously intoxicated driver, who then had an accident with the plaintiffs on the roadway – Case changed 50 years of legal precedent in Tennessee and is referenced in many law school textbooks, articles, and numerous other publications
• Satterfield v. Alcoa, Inc., 266 S.W. 3d 347 (Tenn. 2008) – Tennessee Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a duty is owed by Alcoa to a non-employee household member as it relates to the household member’s contraction of mesothelioma. This was the first of its kind ruling in the United States and has been cited in numerous articles, cases, and briefings all over the country

Accolades