• Under the Class Action Fairness Act, obtained review, an interim stay, and reversal of an order that remanded a significant class action to Louisiana state court under the "local controversy" doctrine. Opelousas General Hospital v. FairPay Solutions Inc. et al., 655 F.3d 358 (5th Cir. Sept. 6, 2011).
  
• Resolved a wide range of investigations, regulatory responses, and discovery involving mortgage servicers during the "robo-signing" scandal of 2010-11.
  
• Obtained affirmance of a take-nothing judgment on a $90 million usury claim. Esoterick, Inc. et al. v. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., No. 09-20168 (5th Cir. Nov. 11, 2010).
  
• Resolved a $3 million construction dispute with no liability for the owner and an award of attorneys’ fees against the contractor.
  
• Lead counsel in a federal jury trial for a Fortune 500 fiber optics company about the scope of an "earn-out" for network monitoring technology. Wavelinq, Inc. v. JDS Lightwave Prods. Group, 289 Fed. App’x. 755 (5th Cir. 2008).

Mr. Coale has been named to every list of "Texas Super Lawyers" published by Texas Monthly since the list’s inception, each annual listing of the city’s best business litigators in D Magazine since 2007, and was profiled as a "Defender," one of 15 leading defense lawyers in 2009, by the Dallas Business Journal. He is a member of the American Law Institute – its youngest member when elected – and serves on its Special Committee on Technology. He serves as the board chair of the Harvard Club of Dallas and is the immediate past chair of the Appellate Section of the State Bar of Texas.

Before joining LTPC, Mr. Coale was in the leadership of financial services litigation at one of the world’s largest law firms, and was previously the head of litigation at a mid-sized Dallas firm. He clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit after graduating with honors from the University of Texas School of Law and Harvard College, where he won the national college debate championship.