Prof. Coordes is an associate professor of law. Her research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress and includes commercial law, large corporate reorganizations, and local government finance and policy. She teaches Chapter 11 bankruptcy, advanced bankruptcy, secured transactions and contracts. She also has written at least five groundbreaking articles on municipal bankruptcy. Her work was featured on industry blogs, including the Harvard Bankruptcy Roundtable, and in The Green Bag, the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice and Business Credit.

In 2018, Prof. Coordes was selected as the American Bankruptcy Law Journal’s Academic Fellow and serves on its board. She has been awarded a grant from INSOL International to conduct a global study of responses to distressed local public entities. She is an active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and served on the board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal from 2019 until 2022. She was also honored as a member of the ABI’s 40 Under 40 in 2020.

She serves on the Education Committee for the 2021 National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual Meeting and the Education Committee for Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE). She co-chairs the municipalities committee of a working group exploring bankruptcy’s role in the economic fallout from COVID-19.

Prof. Coordes is currently serving as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors. She is also a contributor to SLoGLaw Blog and a contributing editor for Bankruptcy Law Letter. Prof. Coordes holds an Honorary Master of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and received her J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bradley Fellow and served on The University of Chicago Law Review.

She completed a legal fellowship at the Student Press Law Center after receiving her degree. Before coming to the College of Law, Professor Coordes, practised in the Business, Finance and Restructuring Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.

Prof. Coordes is one of the jury for the ILA International (Insolvency & Bankruptcy) Short Story Contest: 2023 Edition.