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 Michael K. Collins
Los Angeles, California
| | phone | (213) 620-0460
| | fax | (213) 624-4840
| | email | Email Me
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MICHAEL K. COLLINS has a broad based business litigation practice with an emphasis on matters involving real estate, construction, insurance coverage, bad faith, golf course design and operation, and defense of legal malpractice matters. Mr. Collins also specializes in civil appellate matters and has briefed and argued more than one hundred appeals and extraordinary writs in the California Supreme Court and the federal and state courts of appeals, including nineteen published opinions.
Mr. Collins graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1965 and pursued a year of post-graduate study in chemistry. He received his law degree in 1969 from the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis where was a member of Order of the Coif and Editor-in-Chief of the Washington University Law Quarterly. Mr. Collins was admitted to the California Bar in 1970 and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California.
Corporate Transactions & Consulting:
Commercial Contracts
Litigation
Insurance & Surety Law:
Bad Faith
Coverage
Litigation
Intellectual Property:
False Advertising & Unfair Competition
Litigation
Patents
Trade Secrets
Trademarks & Trade Dress
Litigation:
Appellate
Business
Class Actions
Complex Civil Litigation
General Litigation
Insurance
Intellectual Property & Technology
- Copyright Infringement
- Patent Infringement
- Trademark Infringement
Real Property
- Construction (lien, bond claims, subsidence & defect litigation)
- Contract Disputes
- Development Issues
- Easements & Rights of Way
- Financing Disputes, receiverships & judicial foreclosures
- Fraud
- Landlord-tenant Litigation
- Partnership Dissolution
- Purchase & Sales Disputes
- Specific Performance
- Title Insurance
Torts
Trade Secrets
Unfair Business Practices & Compensation
Taxation & Estate Planning:
Litigation
- California, 1970
- U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1970
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1970
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1970
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1970
- Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri,
1969
J.D.
Honors: Order of the Coif
Honors: Member of the Law Review (Editor-in-Chief, 1968-1969)
- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri,
1965
A.B. (post-graduate work in chemistry, 1965-1966)
- Levy v. Superior Court, 10 Cal.4th 578 (1995); Steinberg v. Amplica, Inc., 42 Cal.3d 1198 (1987); In re Marriage of Fink, 25 Cal.3d 877 (1979); In re Marriage of Fonstein, 17 Cal.3d 738 (1976); Southern California Edison Co. v. Superior Court, 7 Cal.3d 832 (1972); Solit v. Tokai Bank, 68 Cal.App.4th 1435 (1999); Royster Constr. Co. v. Urban West Communities, 40 Cal.App.4th 1158 (1995); Ammco Ornamental Iron, Inc. v. Wing, 26 Cal.App.4th 409 (1994); Oprian v. Goldrich, Kest & Associates, 220
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of California; Wilshire Country Club
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