M. COLLINS Shawn

An outstanding trial attorney, Shawn Collins is at his best in a courtroom. Since 1986, Shawn Collins has combined his powerful communication skills with an unrelenting commitment to his clients' causes to win trials and secure favorable settlements in courts across America. Shawn has extensive experience handling "high stakes" litigation in the following areas:

• Environmental contamination
• Toxic chemical contamination
• Personal injury
• Wrongful death
• Product liability
• Business fraud
• Partnership/ownership disputes
• Breach of contract
• Unfair business practices
• Injunctions

His success can be measured in the results he has earned for his clients. Most recently, Shawn was pivotal in negotiating a $408 million settlement for over 800 plaintiffs who contracted cancer after being exposed for years to ethylene oxide air pollution in their community. Shawn also served as co-counsel in a case resulting in a $363 million jury verdict for a woman who contracted breast cancer after decades of exposure to the defendant's ethylene oxide. The verdict was the largest single plaintiff verdict in Illinois history and the 2nd highest personal injury verdict in the entire country in 2022. Shawn has also been instrumental in acquiring clean water and contamination-free homes for thousands of families. In addition, Shawn has recovered millions on behalf of clients, including: $34.5 million for a neighborhood with toxic vapor intrusion, $10 million on behalf of homeowners whose wells were contaminated by dangerous chemicals; $8.5 million for the wrongful death of a firefighter killed in a motor vehicle accident; $16.9 million for families in a groundwater contamination case; $8.19 million for a town with vapor and groundwater contamination; more than $12 million for plaintiffs who contracted cancer after exposure to toxic chemicals; $8 million in settlements to families affected by landfill contamination, and over $30 million for condominium owners in property disputes.