Daniel Alexander’s practice is focused on litigating complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts. Daniel has litigated cases in the antitrust, securities and consumer protection fields in both individual lawsuits and in nationwide class actions and other sophisticated multi-plaintiff disputes.

Before joining Coleman Frost in 2007, Daniel practiced at O'Melveny & Myers LLP for almost six years. At O'Melveny, Daniel's experience included managing the coordination of almost 90 class actions on behalf of a major electronics manufacturer and substantial work managing class action litigation for Ford Motor Company.

Daniel began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Craig T. Enoch of the Supreme Court of Texas after receiving his J.D. degree with honors from Southern Methodist University and his undergraduate degree with honors from McMurry University.

Bruce Armstrong has over thirty years’ experience as a litigator and has tried over 100 complex civil jury cases to verdict in state and federal courts. Bruce’s trial experience covers a wide range of substantive practice areas, including various commercial disputes and real estate, bankruptcy, administrative law, professional negligence, torts, personal injury and products liability cases. He has an impressive record of victories to his credit, including obtaining multi-million dollar verdicts in cases in which Bruce has represented the plaintiff and numerous defense verdicts when acting as defense counsel.

Bruce has also lectured and had articles published concerning a variety of trial-related subjects. His articles include “The Stealth Attack on Privileges,” Voir Dire, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, “Avoiding Disqualification: Be Sure You Have the Right Expert for the Case” The Witness Chair, Issue 14, Spring, 1999, with Frances M. O’Meara, Esq., “Expert Witnesses: Set’em Up to Knock’em Down,” Beverly Hills Bar Association, Litigation Section, May 20, 1999, with Glen Kulik, Esq., and “Practice in Los Angeles Superior Court: 90 Days to Go,” Panel before Beverly Hills Bar Association, Section of Litigation, June 7, 2000.

Bruce is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Southern California Defense Counsel Association, and the Los Angeles Complex Litigation Inn of Court, among other organizations.

Bruce received his J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1972 and his B.A. in history from Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1967.

Derrick Coleman's practice is focused on litigating complex commercial and other disputes in the state and federal courts. Derrick has litigated cases in the consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-trust, real estate, securities, health care, employment, and toxic tort fields in both individual lawsuits and arbitration proceedings and in nationwide class actions and other sophisticated multi-plaintiff disputes. He has represented a wide variety of clients over the years, including several of the top ten largest publicly-traded corporations in the world, a number of other Fortune 100 companies, medium-size and small businesses, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. He has represented some of the largest business organizations in some of the most widely-publicized litigation matters in the nation’s history, including cases with billions of dollars at stake.

Before forming Coleman Frost in 2004, Derrick practiced at O'Melveny & Myers LLP for seven years. At O'Melveny, Derrick's experience included serving as the primary liaison counsel for Ford Motor Company in the highly-publicized statewide coordination proceedings, In re Bridgestone/Firestone, featuring hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury claims nationwide. Derrick started his practice at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP in 1993 where he was responsible for a variety of tort, construction defect and labor and employment cases.

Derrick has written and lectured on class action-related topics, including lecturing before the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals (“Class Action Litigation and its Impact Upon Insurers and Regulators”).

Derrick earned his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1993 after graduating from Duke University in 1990 with a dual-major B.S. in physics and a B.A. in political science.

Caroline Craddock's practice is focused on litigation. Caroline started her practice at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel in 1991 where she handled a variety of mass tort and product liability cases in the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer products fields. Caroline has also served as regulatory counsel for her clients in the consumer goods manufacturing field.

Caroline earned her undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1986, where she also spent four years as a member of the University's varsity golf team. Caroline then worked in the investment banking industry for two years before going back to school and earning her Juris Doctorate degree from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1991.
 

J.B. Frost specializes in representing Fortune 500 and start-up clients in transactions and disputes involving intellectual property and technology assets and issues, including drafting and negotiating agreements to develop, acquire, sell, manage, license and exploit a variety of computer hardware components and software programs and trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets and personality rights.

J.B.'s practice also includes counseling clients regarding emerging Internet, privacy and consumer protection laws, including drafting and negotiating a variety of digital content distribution agreements, formulating online ecommerce policies and contracts for a variety of commercial websites and designing comprehensive data collection, use and transfer policies. J.B. also helps clients create and perform comprehensive intellectual property asset protection programs and audits and represents clients in connection with the adoption, registration and protection of trademarks at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in trademark disputes under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

After graduating from Loyola Law School in 1996, magna cum laude, J.B. practiced at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and served as the co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions group until co-founding Coleman Frost LLP in 2004. J.B. has also written and lectured on various intellectual property and Internet issues, including making presentations to the Los Angles County Bar Association on privacy issues and to the Software Council of Southern California on the challenges presented in ASP licensing models.

Don Johnson has more than 30 years of experience in securities transactions and securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial transactions, business organizations and related matters. Don also has advised hundreds of clients in private and public offerings of securities and in acquisition, merger, and corporate reorganization transactions of public and private companies. These transactions have involved clients in a broad range of industries, including automotive, advertising and marketing, aerospace, agriculture, banking, consumer products, computer hardware and software, e commerce, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, insurance, Internet, manufacturing, motion picture, multimedia, oil and gas, professional services, real estate, restaurants, technology, and venture capital.

Don previously was a member of Richman, Mann, Chizever, Philips and Duboff, Beverly Hills, California, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles, California, and Mulvaney, Kahan & Barry, San Diego, California.

Don holds a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the State Bar of California and the bars of the U. S. Supreme Court, U. S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, U. S. District Court, Southern District of California, and U. S. Tax Court.

Loretta Mills’ practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling and complex business litigation.

Prior to joining Coleman Frost, Loretta spent several years with Littler Mendelson, LLP, the national-recognized labor and employment firm, dedicating her practice to the representation of employers in all aspects of employment litigation and counseling. Loretta has extensive experience handling a variety of employment-related issues such as wage and hour disputes, employee class actions, trade secrets and unfair competition, employment contracts, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, and harassment.

Loretta began her career at Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro LLP, where she was involved in litigating high-stakes, high-profile cases. Loretta honed her litigation skills at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif LLP, where she continued to litigate complex, multi-million dollar business and commercial matters in the areas of entertainment, employment, intellectual property, securities, insurance, real estate, toxic torts and class actions.

Loretta graduated from Loyola Law School in 1998, where she was an Editor of the Loyola Law Review and published author in the Loyola Entertainment Law Journal. Loretta graduated from UCLA with Honors in 1994.