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Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Ranked in 2025 “Best Law Firms”

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC’s Appellate Practice Group has been recognized nationally for the 9th year in a row. The 2025 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list names the Appellate Practice Group as a National Tier 3.  CEF is also proud to be recognized as Metropolitan Tier 1 in 9 practice areas. “Firms...
Collins Einhorn Farrell PC’s Appellate Practice Group has been recognized nationally for the 9th year in a row. The 2025...
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21 Collins Einhorn Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers

  Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that 21 of our firm’s lawyers have been included in the 2024 editions of Super Lawyers.  Five of the 21 recognized lawyers have been included in the Rising Stars edition, which recognizes attorneys who are early in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in private...
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Collins Einhorn CEO, Kellie Howard, Discusses AI Ethics with FOX2

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not.  Despite ongoing speculation about AI having the capacity to replace us all, we assure you it does not.  There is, however, an ongoing enthusiasm to harness the technology, which has been around for decades, but has recently become...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an integral part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not.  Despite ongoing speculation...
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Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Welcomes New Managing Partners, Kellie L. Howard and Donald D. Campbell

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC welcomes new managing partners, Kellie L. Howard and Donald D. Campbell in 2024. Howard and Campbell, who became the firm’s chief executive officer and president respectively, are focused on affirming and ensuring Collins Einhorn’s hallmark of providing quality legal counsel to every client. As we mark this leadership transition, we reflect...
Collins Einhorn Farrell PC welcomes new managing partners, Kellie L. Howard and Donald D. Campbell in 2024. Howard and Campbell,...
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Firm Announcements

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11 '16

Seventeen Attorneys Listed as 2017 “Top Lawyers” by DBusiness

November 1, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is pleased to announce that seventeen attorneys have been named to the 2017 “Top Lawyers” list by DBusiness magazine. Click on the headline for details.

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09 '16

Nineteen Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers

September 1, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC announced today that 15 of its attorneys have been named to the 2016 Michigan Super Lawyers list. An additional four attorneys from Collins Einhorn were named to the 2016 Michigan Rising Stars list.

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08 '16

Michael J. Sullivan Named the Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in Detroit for the Fifth Time

August 15, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC President Michael J. Sullivan has been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2017 Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants “Lawyer of the Year” in Metro Detroit. This is the fifth time Sullivan has been designated as a “Lawyer of the Year.” He has been recognized as such in the field of Professional Malpractice law in 2011, 2013, and 2017, in addition to having been named the “Lawyer of the Year” in the field of Legal Malpractice Law in 2012 and 2014. Sullivan is also one of eleven attorneys within the firm who have been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017. This also marks the seventh year in a row that a Collins Einhorn lawyer has been named the “Lawyer of the Year” in the fields of either Professional Malpractice Law or Legal Malpractice Law. Sullivan has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the past eight consecutive years.

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08 '16

Brian D. Einhorn Named the Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in Detroit for the Third Year

August 15, 2016

Attorney Brian D. Einhorn has been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2017 Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants “Lawyer of the Year” in Metro Detroit. This is the third time Einhorn has received such recognition. He has also been previously been listed as a Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” for his work in Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants (2016) and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants (2014). Einhorn is also one of eleven attorneys within the firm who have been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017, recognized for his work in the fields of Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants.

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08 '16

11 Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Attorneys Named to 2017 Best Lawyers in America© List

August 15, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell would like to congratulate the following attorneys selected in their respective fields to the 2017 Best Lawyers in America list: David C. Anderson (Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants); Theresa M. Asoklis (Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants); Donald D. Campbell (Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law); Timothy F. Casey (Insurance Law); Brian D. Einhorn (Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants); Clayton F. Farrell (Product Liability Litigation – Defendants); Deborah A. Hebert (Appellate Practice, Insurance Law); Neil W. MacCallum (Product Liability Litigation – Defendants); Noreen L. Slank (Appellate Practice, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants); Michael J. Sullivan (Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants); and Robert C. Tice (Litigation – Labor and Employment).

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06 '16

David C. Anderson sworn in as President of Oakland County Bar Association

June 29, 2016

On Thursday, June 2, 2016, CEF attorney David C. Anderson was sworn in as the 84th President of the Oakland County Bar Association. We are very proud to be associated with such a fine leader in the legal community, and we look forward to sharing his future accomplishments with all of you. Congratulations, David.

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06 '16

Court Grants Motion for Summary Disposition in Wayne County Circuit Court in Premises Liability Claim

June 7, 2016

Attorneys Deborah A. Lujan and Kari L. Melkonian won summary disposition in favor of defendant party supply store in a premises liability action arising out of a trip and fall over a hanger. The Court dismissed plaintiff’s complaint against the store owner with prejudice finding that the hanger was an open and obvious hazard and thus no duty was owed to plaintiff under the circumstances.

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05 '16

CEF Founder Mort Collins to Receive Oakland County Bar Association Distinguished Career Achievement Award

May 19, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is proud to announce that firm founder Morton H. Collins has been selected to receive the Oakland County Bar Association’s Distinguished Career Achievement Award. The OCBA Distinguished Career Achievement Award was established in 2001 to recognize an attorney whose career exemplifies extraordinary achievement in the ideals of the profession throughout the active legal career of the recipient. The OCBA Distinguished Career Achievement Award will be presented to Mort Collins at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Oakland County Bar Association on June 2, 2016.

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04 '16

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC Celebrates 45 Years of Business

April 19, 2016

Collins Einhorn Farrell PC is proud to be celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2016. The history of Collins Einhorn Farrell PC can be traced back to a small office in Southfield, Michigan in 1971, opened by a young yet already established attorney named Morton Collins. Collins had a vision of creating an environment where lawyers were supported, encouraged, and given an opportunity to develop their own practice and areas of specialty, all while keeping the customers’ best interests in mind. This attracted attorneys such as Brian Einhorn, who joined the practice that year, and Clay Farrell, who joined in 1973. Working together, they continued to set a standard for quality service to their clients and the community…

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03 '16

Donald D. Campbell to Serve on Ad Hoc Committee on Alternative Billing Structures

March 28, 2016

Attorney Donald D. Campbell has been selected by State Bar of Michigan President Lori Buiteweg to serve on an Ad Hoc Committee on Alternative Billing Structures. The committee will be considering alternative fee arrangements and ways to clarify obligations required by MRPC 1.5, including proposed amendments to the rule and the comments, a possible definitional section, and other constructive ways to provide further ethics guidance to SBM members regarding fee arrangements. Don was counsel for Patricia Cooper in the Michigan Supreme Court case that authorized non-refundable retainers, GA v Cooper, 482 Mich 1079 (2008).

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