Overview

Malcolm Coffman provides counsel on product regulatory compliance and represents companies in complex product liability and mass tort litigation. He has experience litigating in California state courts and federal courts throughout the country. Malcolm prepares pleadings and discovery responses, drafts dispositive motions, and collaborates with experts in chemistry, thermodynamics, toxicology, and other fields. He has performed substantive work in high-stakes product liability cases, including multidistrict litigations (MDLs) and California Judicial Council coordinated proceedings (JCCPs). Malcolm also maintains an active pro bono practice and has experience litigating on behalf of indigent clients in administrative proceedings as well as at the federal appellate level.

Prior Experience

Prior to joining Faegre Drinker’s San Francisco office, Malcolm served as a law clerk for the Honorable David T. Schultz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Malcolm received his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School. During law school, he was executive editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy and earned a position as a brief writer on the Moot Court Board. While attending law school, Malcolm completed a judicial externship with Justice Mary I. Yu of the Washington Supreme Court and worked in the Staff Attorney’s Office at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

Personal Interests

Outside of work, Malcolm enjoys photography, wilderness backpacking, and writing and recording original music.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

California
Washington

Clerkships

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Hon. David T. Schultz, 2023-2024

Education

Notre Dame Law School
J.D. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (executive editor) (2023)

University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S. in Biopsychology (2019)

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