Carmen J. Cole is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Meserve, Mumper & Hughes LLP. She is a member of the Bar of the State of California and Georgia, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California.

Ms. Cole has extensive experience defending management in employment-related litigation, including discrimination/harassment and wrongful termination litigation arising under the state and federal employment statutes (Title VII, FEHA, ADEA, ADA), as well as under common law for breach of contract, defamation, invasion of privacy and other employment related torts. Ms. Cole also represents employee benefit plans, plan administrators, plan insurers and other fiduciaries in litigation arising out of life, health and disability benefit claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Additionally, Ms. Cole counsels management on various employment-related issues such as leaves of absence and wage/hour compliance. She also conducts sensitivity training and employment investigations, as well as drafting Employee Handbooks, confidentiality agreements and arbitration agreements.

Ms. Cole graduated from the Pepperdine University School of Law in 2001, where she was inducted to the Order of Barristers, a national honorary organization recognizing excellence in oral and written advocacy. Ms. Cole also served on the Moot Court Board as the Chair of its appellate moot court programs and was awarded Best Oral Advocate honors in the Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition. Ms. Cole received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, with an emphasis in Public Relations, from the California State University, Fullerton, in 1998.

Ms. Cole was named a "Southern California Super Lawyers: Rising Star" by Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine in 2007. "Rising Stars" are "outstanding, emerging attorneys in Southern California," under 40 years of age. The final list includes less than 3 percent of the Southern California Bar.