Meet Lee Coleman
Lee Coleman is a personal injury attorney and the co-founder and managing partner of Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers, which he started with J. Marshall Hughes in 1985. The firm serves injured people across Kentucky and Tennessee, with offices in Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, Columbia, and Gallatin, Tennessee, and in Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Louisville, Kentucky. Its Nashville office is located at 446 James Robertson Parkway, Suite 100. Mr. Coleman is licensed to practice law in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and New Mexico.
Mr. Coleman earned his J.D. from the University of Louisville in 1981 and his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky in 1978. He began his career as a prosecutor with the Warren County Attorney's office in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he tried approximately 50 jury trials in two years. After co-founding Hughes & Coleman, he served as lead courtroom attorney in at least 20 cases tried to jury verdict. Today the firm has more than 30 attorneys.
Hughes & Coleman represents people hurt in car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, victims of nursing home abuse, and families with wrongful death claims. Results obtained by the firm's trial team include a $12,000,000 jury verdict in Davidson County, Tennessee, for a man injured when an inattentive semi-truck driver struck his vehicle, a $6,700,000 jury verdict against a tow truck company, and a $725,000 settlement for a man rear-ended in Nashville.
Mr. Coleman has been named a Kentucky Super Lawyer in Personal Injury since 2012. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 Avvo rating, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. In 2001, the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the firm's use of the term "Injury Lawyers" was proper.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.