Ron Coleman is a commercial litigator, First Amendment advocate, and founder of Coleman Law Firm, PC (New York / New Jersey metro). He focuses on trademark and unfair-competition litigation, media and defamation defense, social-media “cancel culture” cases, and free-speech challenges in federal and state courts nationwide. He is best known for representing Simon Tam and the Asian-American rock band The Slants in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Matal v. Tam (2017), which unanimously struck down the federal ban on “disparaging” trademarks as unconstitutional. A Princeton (AB ’85) and Northwestern Law (JD ’88) graduate, Ron previously practiced at major firms including Dhillon Law Group (partner until 2025) and maintained the widely read Likelihood of Confusion®️ blog on IP, free speech, and internet law from 2005–2020 (now archived by the Library of Congress). He has been honored by the ABA IP Section (Mark T. Banner Award), World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000, and others for his work at the intersection of law, culture, and expression. When he’s not in court, Ron hosts The ColemanNation Podcast, where he interviews historians, authors, lawyers, and troublemakers about the ideas and institutions that will determine whether the West still has a future.