Press Releases and News Coverage

January 28, 2025 – Five attorneys at The Collins Law Firm have been named to the Illinois SuperLawyers list this year. Partner Edward Manzke, and Of Counsel attorneys Norman Berger and John Sopuch have been selected as 2025 SuperLawyers. Partner John Risvold and associate Margaret Galka have been ...

Naperville, IL - After three years of litigation, the Honorable Stephen E. Balogh, Associate Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit in Winnebago County, Illinois, granted final approval of a $94.5 Million settlement for damages arising from a massive fire and explosion at the Chemtool manufacturing plan...

Conyers, Georgia, October 8, 2024 – The Collins Law Firm, in collaboration with a prestigious legal team, has filed a class action lawsuit against BioLab, Inc. and KIK Consumer Products on behalf of over 90,000 Georgia residents impacted by a catastrophic chemical fire at BioLab’s Conyers facili...

Naperville, IL (July 30, 2024) - We are pleased to announce that Shawn Collins has been selected as President of the Top 10 Environmental Trial Lawyers for 2025. Mr. Collins’ years of experience and his outstanding ability in the field of environmental litigation were factors in the selection. The...

February 27, 2024 - The Collins Law Firm is proud to announce that six attorneys at the firm have been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers list this year. Partners Shawn Collins and Edward Manzke, and Of Counsel attorneys Norman Berger and John Sopuch have been selected as 2024 Super Lawyers. Partne...

Naperville, IL (December 18, 2023) - We are pleased to announce that The Collins Law Firm has once again been recognized nationally and regionally as a “Best Law Firm” in four practice areas by Best Lawyers. The 2024 edition of Best Lawyers' Best Law Firms list recognizes the most elite firms fr...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to announce that our $363 million verdict in Kamuda v. Sterigenics U.S. LLC, et al., has been named the second highest personal injury verdict in the United States in 2022 and the tenth highest jury verdict in all practice areas in the U.S. in 2022 by Top Verdict. Congr...

Naperville, IL (11/2023) - Collins Law attorneys Shawn Collins and Margaret (Maggie) Galka were honored this week at the Trial Lawyers Excellence Awards held in Chicago by the Jury Verdict Reporter, a division of Law Bulletin Media. Shawn and Maggie received the 2023 Trial Lawyer Excellence Award fo...

Naperville, IL (10/24/2023) - Shawn Collins of The Collins Law Firm in Naperville, IL has been chosen as a 2023 Environmental MVP by Law 360 due to his work on the Sterigenics litigation in Cook County. IL. Shawn served as a co-lead of the Plaintiffs Executive Committee in the In re Willowbrook Ethy...

We are proud to announce that our $363 million verdict in Kamuda v. Sterigenics U.S. LLC, et al., has been named the number one jury verdict among all practice areas in Illinois in 2022 by Top Verdict. Congratulations to Collins Law partners Shawn Collins and Edward Manzke and associate Margaret Gal...