Press Releases and News Coverage

Thank you to Christopher Harriss at Reckon News for writing this article and for interviewing partner Shawn Collins about the environmental impact of the recent railroad merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. In the article, Shawn wonders why the East Palestine disaster didn't pro...

Thank you to WTTW - Chicago PBS for interviewing Collins Law partner Shawn Collins for their article on local opposition to the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger. Leaders and residents in the areas that will be affected are concerned that the railroad company merger will increase air ...

Attorney Shawn Collins is quoted in an article in DC Velocity, criticizing the rail industry's sudden rush to unveil new safety initiatives just so they can set their own operating standards before federal regulators step in and set more rigorous ones. The industry is trying to preempt Washington po...

January 31, 2023 - 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 2023 Super Lawyers. Partner...

The Winnebago County Court has recently granted the Firm's Motion for Class Certification stemming from the Chemtool fire and explosion in Rockton, Illinois. Judge Stephen Ballogh granted class certification to property owners and residents who resided within three miles of the Chemtool facility. Th...

A Cook County jury has found Sterigenics responsible for causing plaintiff Sue Kamuda’s breast cancer, awarding the Willowbrook woman a total of $363 million dollars in the first Sterigenics trial. Sue contracted an aggressive form of breast cancer after living 1/3 of a mile from Sterigenics’ st...

Naperville (November 17, 2022) - The Collins Law Firm has been recognized both nationally and regionally as a 2023 Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. Only a small fraction of firms--2071 law firms out of more than 400,000 in the U.S.--have earned national recognition fro...

Law360 (August 18, 2022, 11:22 PM EDT) -- Industrial sterilization company Sterigenics pumped excessive amounts of ethylene oxide into the air from its Willowbrook, Illinois, facility for decades without warning the community about the serious health risks of breathing in the known carcinogen, an Il...

Naperville (August 25, 2022) - The Collins Law Firm is proud to announce that three Collins Law Firm attorneys have been chosen by peers for inclusion in the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected guide to the legal profession. This year's list r...

"On March 31, an attorney representing the Edgar County Watchdogs, as well as ECW cofounder Kirk Allen and government transparency and reform advocate Adam Andrzejewski, asked DuPage County Judge Bryan S. Chapman for permission to file a motion for partial summary judgment to end a big part of a law...