Collins | Einhorn | Farrell & Ulanoff

Professional Liability

The Professional Liability defense team at Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff represents professionals in the legal, medical/dental, insurance, accounting, architectual, engineering and real estate fields. Our dedicated team of lawyers defends and provides creative, efficient, and skilled representation when a fellow lawyer, judge, doctor, dentist, or other professional is sued for malpractice or is faced with any action threatening their license and thus their livelihood.

Our experienced attorneys proactively assist clients in identifying key areas of liability, and develop a plan to minimize exposure. Our ability to develop unique strategies for a well-organized and effective defense, and to provide exemplary writing and oral advocacy skills, has garnered our firm the respect of Michigan’s trial and appellate judiciary.

The Professional Liability defense practice group at Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff is led by a team of highly experienced attorneys that include: Brian Einhorn, Michael Sullivan, Theresa Asoklis, David Anderson, Donald Campbell, Deborah Lujan and Richard Joslin. Colleen Burke, Jacqueline Bayley and Monika Sullivan, along with the firm’s superb appellate staff, directly support the team in obtaining outstanding results. The Professional Liability defense group has provided decades of superior legal representation to local professionals and boasts an outstanding record of trial and appellate court successes.

For many years Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff has been at the forefront of this practice area. Brian Einhorn, Michael Sullivan, Theresa Asoklis, and David Anderson have provided successful defense to thousands of professionals who find themselves named as defendants in state and federal courts. In addition, Brian Einhorn, Theresa Asoklis and Don Campbell have regularly practiced before the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission as well as the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission. Don Campbelll provides outside general counsel ethics advice and representation as well as expert advice and testimony in ethics, professional responsibility and standard of practice. Don is a liaison to the American Bar Association’s Center for Professional Responsibility Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, a member of the State Bar of Michigan Standing Committee on Professional Ethics, and a law professor at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law teaching Professional Responsibility and Corporate Law/Ethics.

Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff’s Professional Liability attorneys are retained to:

Consult on claims “repair” or pre-suit matters;
Represent professionals in all aspects of trial and appellate litigation;
Represent professionals or firms in dissolution issues or in partner v. partner litigation; and
Provide advice to lawyers, judges or other professionals facing disciplinary action.

The strong reputation and sophistication of the attorneys in this practice area often lead defendant professionals to specifically request our lawyers as defense counsel when insurance companies provide malpractice coverage.