Kevin Collins is very good in a crisis. He has a keen sense of how to respond when things aren’t looking good for a company.

The Legal 500 United States, 2024

Kevin Collins is a first-chair trial lawyer with 20 years of combined private and government experience. He handles complex cases across multiple industries throughout the United States. Kevin leads criminal and civil trial teams in federal, state, and administrative investigations and trials. He is a former federal prosecutor, who served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Eastern District of Texas.

He is co-leader of the Firm’s Incident Prevention and Response practice group and has deployed to multiple catastrophic incidents in the energy and manufacturing sectors. He has strong working relationships with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other state and local authorities that investigate incidents.

Kevin routinely partners with our labor & employment, healthcare, and pipeline safety lawyers to investigate compliance concerns, employment-related issues, safety concerns, whistleblower complaints, and allegations of criminal violations.  He has handled cases involving the U.S. Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), the Department of Interior, U.S. Postal Service CID, U.S. EPA CID, and other investigative authorities.

Currently, among other engagements, Kevin serves on the trial team in United States v. Denka Performance Elastometer LLC, No. 2:23-cv-00735 (E.D. La.), a Clean Air Act Section 303 action against the nation’s only Neoprene manufacturer.

Kevin serves as an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches courses in trial advocacy, and at St. Edward’s University, where he teaches courses in criminal law.