Texas attorney Richard Coffman was the first to file a class action suit against Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) after its data breach was announced publicly this past January.

In an exclusive interview, Coffman discusses:

After practicing several years as a CPA with two international accounting firms, Coffman received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1989. He began his legal career in Houston with a large Texas law firm where he represented plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation. Since that time, his own law practice, the Coffman Law Firm, has focused on business cases, consumer cases, complex commercial litigation and class actions.