Robert Tyler | Jennifer Monk | Benjamin Rosenbaum | Harold Coleman, Jr.

Robert Tyler

Robert has been practicing law in Southwest Riverside County for over 13 years. Since passing the California Bar, Robert has practiced in real estate law, business transactions and litigation, employment law, constitutional law, and bankruptcy. Robert has also been instrumental in the furtherance of religious liberty through the prosecution of numerous religious liberty lawsuits. In 2005, he founded Advocates for Faith and Freedom, a nonprofit religious liberty law firm. Robert has served as an adjunct professor for the University of Redlands where he taught Business Law for its MBA program. Robert received a juris doctorate degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1995 and earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from California State University, Fullerton, in 1990. Robert has been featured in American Lawyer and The Daily Journal, two prominent trade magazines. On numerous occasions, Robert has been called on to comment and be interviewed by local, national, and international media outlets. He has been a featured guest on Fox News, MSNBC, TBN, and PBS. Robert is admitted to practice in all California state courts, in the U.S. District Court’s Central and Southern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Jennifer Monk

Jennifer graduated from Pepperdine University with a juris doctorate degree (graduating Magna Cum Laude) and a master’s degree in public policy. She performed her undergraduate work at Gordon College in Boston and graduated Summa Cum Laude. While finishing her law degree, Jennifer earned numerous awards for academic achievement, excellence in moot court competitions, and brief writing. During this time, she also worked as a law clerk for Robert Tyler. Jennifer works heavily in Tyler’s Litigation, Real Estate, Land Use and Development, and Employment Law practice areas. Jennifer also helped found Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and litigates several religious liberty lawsuits. Jennifer has made numerous radio and television appearances, including CNN, FoxNews, and TBN. She has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, in addition to various other publications. Along with Robert Tyler, Jennifer is the co-author of a law review article advocating the application of First Amendment principles in religious land use cases. “The Application of Prior Restraint: An Alternative Doctrine for Religious Land Use Cases” has been published by the University of Toledo. Jennifer is admitted to practice in all California state courts, in the U.S. District Court’s Central and Southern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 

 

Benjamin C. Rosenbaum

Benjamin graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Juris Doctorate degree. He performed his undergraduate work at Fresno Pacific University and graduated Summa Cum Laude. While finishing his law degree, Benjamin was a practice area editor for the UC Davis Business Law Journal, was involved with the Federalist Society and the Christian Legal Society, and served in student government. During this time, he also worked as a law clerk for a constitutional law organization, and for the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Yolo.

Benjamin works heavily in Tyler’s Litigation, Real Estate, Corporate Law – Business Law, Nonprofit – Religious Organizations, and Bankruptcy practice areas.

Benjamin also works for Advocates for Faith and Freedom, and is involved in litigating religious liberty cases. Benjamin is admitted to practice in all California state courts, in the U.S. District Court’s Central District of California, and in the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District of California.

 

Harold Coleman, Jr.

Harold Coleman, Jr. is 'Of Counsel' to Tyler & Monk, LLP, where his practice focuses on complex litigation consulting, pre-litigation dispute prevention, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), and transactional/advisory counsel services. His principal areas of expertise focus on the creative problem solving and early resolution of real estate, commercial and employment disputes. Harold was formerly name partner of Gaglione, Coleman & Greene, LLP, a San Diego civil litigation firm, and earlier associated with the San Diego firm of McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees, Sharkey & McIntyre, APC, where, as senior litigation associate, his practice focused on complex technical litigation and ADR. Harold is Tyler & Monk's resident counsel of the firm's San Diego County office.

A credentialed commercial arbitrator and mediator and licensed real estate broker, Harold is an ADR panelist with the Superior Court of California's Civil Mediation Program, the San Diego Association of Realtors' Real Estate Mediation Center, the San Diego County Bar Association's attorney/client fee arbitration and mediation committees, and the American Arbitration Association's Large & Complex Case panel for commercial and construction disputes. In his role of neutral, Harold has served the international business and legal communities since 1987 in resolving complex litigated and non-litigated disputes through innovative ADR applications of interest-based negotiation, facilitation, mediation, independent fact-finding, early neutral evaluation, and binding arbitration. He frequently conducts professional development workshops for newly credentialed arbitrators and mediators in arbitration case management, arbitrator continuing education, arbitration advocacy, mediation skills, mediation advocacy, mediation skills, and conflict management. Harold's ADR corporate clientele has included The Boeing Company, the global aerospace leader, where Harold served the enterprise nationwide as ADR consultant and workplace mediation trainer.

A former project design engineer and multi-disciplinary project manager, Harold has actively facilitated the resolution of several hundred litigated, mediated and arbitrated disputes, with an aggregate case disposition value well exceeding 500-million dollars over a 20+ year law and ADR career. Among other honors and awards, Harold was recognized by the State Bar of California in 2000 with its "Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession" citation. In 2009 Harold was inducted as Fellow of the prestigious national College of Commercial Arbitrators, comprised of some of the most esteemed neutrals in the industry. In 2011, Harold was appointed to the national board of directors of the American Arbitration Association. Harold is a 1984 graduate of San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law.