Collinslegal
Detroit,
Michigan
Jeffrey G. Collins specializes in white collar criminal defense and has extensive experience as a federal prosecutor, appellate judge, and trial attorney. In November 1998, he was named by the Michigan Supreme Court to be the presiding judge of the Criminal Division of Wayne County Circuit Court. Mr. Collins was appointed by Governor John Engler to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 2000. He was appointed to the post of U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan by President George W. Bush, confirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate, and sworn in on November 19, 2001. In that role, Mr. Collins supervised one of the largest U.S. Attorney's Offices in the country, consisting of 99 criminal and civil assistant U.S. attorneys. He was also a partner from 2003 to 2006 at the international law firm of Foley and Lardner LLP, after which he started his own firm in Detroit. A past president of the Association of Black Judges of Michigan, Mr. Collins has also served as a criminal law and trial advocacy instructor at Wayne State University Law School.
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