Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  A divorcing husband retained an attorney to represent him in a divorce.  The client’s goals were to resolve the divorce issues (property and child support) amicably and with little cost. The couple’s marital estate included several business interests, one of which had substantial value.  The spouses agreed that the business interests would be split and…

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  You can’t please every client. That’s all the more true in the criminal-defense setting, where the stakes are high. Your client has the potential to lose the thing we value most—freedom. And who’s the first to blame when your client receives a jail or prison sentence, particularly an unexpected one? You. That blame, often misdirected,...
• Wrongful Death
  For more than 45 years, Collins Einhorn Farrell PC has successfully defended manufacturers, distributors, and retailers against wrongful death, personal injury, and other product-liability actions. Our Product Liability Team focuses on understanding a client’s business and the product’s place in it. This strategy facilitates efficient discovery, a strong settlement position, and a vigorous defense if a case goes to trial.
• Extortion
  Attorneys routinely use settlement demands as a method to resolve cases without the time commitment and cost associated with protracted litigation. But at a certain point, the language of a settlement demand may cross the line from mere negotiation strategy into illegal extortion. This is particularly true when the settlement demand includes a threat of...

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Preliminary injunctive relief has long been recognized in commercial contract disputes, particularly where a dispute has the potential to disrupt a commercial supply chain. A party to litigation can file a request for a preliminary injunction and seek an order from the court to maintain the status quo until the dispute is resolved. Recently, the...
• Trade Secrets

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  For more than 20 years, the Employment Practices Liability Group at Collins Einhorn Farrell PC has helped employers navigate the ever-changing waters of employee litigation and workplace regulation. We have defended employers in both state and federal courts against claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  Drastic changes to the existing landscape of premises-liability law may be on the horizon. The fate of the open-and-obvious doctrine in general and the special-aspect exception in particular hang in the balance as the Supreme Court recently entertained mini-oral argument on the application for leave to appeal in Kandil-Elsayed v F&E Oil on March 2,...
• Construction Litigation
• Easement
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Property Damage
• Condominium Law
  Suppose you’re an architect hired to design a new condominium development in a township. The township approved your plans, and the development is built and occupied more than three years ago.  Four years go by since you stopped providing services without a whisper of a problem. But then your firm is served with a lawsuit...

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  From the inception of the firm, the wellbeing of our staff has always been a priority. Fostering a culture of mutual respect has resulted in extremely low employee turnover. Over time our staff has grown to over 120 team members that focus on personal injury defense, professional liability, appellate, insurance coverage, and asbestos.
• Medical Malpractice
  Collins Einhorn serves clients in a broad range of matters, including the core areas of Appellate Law; General and Automotive Liability; Insurance Coverage; Commercial Litigation; Asbestos/Toxic Tort; Professional Liability Defense (legal, medical/dental, insurance, accounting, architectural, engineering and real estate); Grievance Defense (attorney grievance and Judicial tenure defense); Medical Malpractice; Employment Practices Liability; and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Estate planning, a niche area of law, requires special skill and knowledge—not only legal knowledge, but also financial, tax, and accounting knowledge. The creation and administration of estate plans can be complex. So, too, can family dynamics. And with complicated family dynamics comes the potential for, and actual existence of, conflicts of interest. Conflicts of...
• Probate
  Brittany is a paralegal in the General and Automotive Liability practice group. She has nine years of experience in the legal industry, six of which have been as a paralegal, specializing in personal injury and probate law. Brittany has a Bachelor of Arts & Sciences in Political Science from Rhode Island College and a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Rhode Island.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Previously, under the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Glazer v. Chase Home Financial LLC, Michigan lenders and attorneys who sought non-judicial foreclosures were treated like any other “debt collector” under the FDCPA. This meant that even if the lender or attorney sent an initial communication required by statute, that communication also had to contain the “mini-Miranda”...
• Debt Collection
  Collins Einhorn Farrell PC’s General and Automobile Liability Practice Group works as an extension of our clients’ teams, providing effective and cost-effective defense in a wide array of civil litigation and automotive-related cases. Our attorneys have helped clients with premises claims, first- and third-party automobile/trucking liability claims, construction cases, liquor liability (dram shop), products liability, business torts, fair debt collection practices, and various types of negligence claims.