John Coleman III

Burr& Forman LLP

John Coleman has practiced management side labor and employment law for over thirty-five years. A 1978 magna cum laude Duke University graduate, a 1981 Duke University School of Law graduate, a former law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Donald Russell, and a current Burr & Forman LLP partner, John has been elected as Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, as Life Fellow of The American Bar Foundation, and member of the Management Labor and Employment Roundtable, and every edition since 1993 of Best Lawyers in America. Law & Politics’ SuperLawyers this year named him one of Alabama’s top fifty lawyers. John is an adjunct professor at two law schools and has authored Thompson West’s Disability Discrimination in Employment and annual updates, Southern University Press's Employment Discrimination in Alabama and annual updates. He has coauthored a book on workers compensation and contributed to the 1997 and 2004 updates of BNA's Occupational Safety and Health Law and chapters in the book’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions.