Colin has extensive counseling, litigation and appellate experience spanning a broad range of substantive legal issues in state and federal courts across the country. Colin has argued in several federal courts of appeals and has authored petitions for discretionary review, petitions for certiorari, and briefs on the merits in dozens of appeals in the United States Supreme Court; in virtually all of the federal courts of appeals; in the highest state courts in California, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia; and in intermediate appellate courts in California, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Colin also has authored numerous amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal courts of appeals in cases involving a variety of issues under the federal False Claims Act (FCA), the federal securities laws, the federal Trust Indenture Act, the attorney work product privilege, federal administrative law, and constitutional law.
At the trial court level, Colin has prepared successful dispositive motions, motions for judgment as a matter of law on punitive damage claims, and class certification oppositions in state and federal trial courts across the country.
Colin’s trial and appellate practice covers a wide range of substantive areas, including the FCA, foreign judgment enforcement, trade secrets, bankruptcy, class certification, federal securities litigation, defamation, arbitration, state consumer protection statutes, constitutional law (with a particular emphasis on free speech and due process issues), directors’ and officers’ liability, and general commercial and business tort litigation.
Colin’s commentary and scholarship on the U.S. Supreme Court, the FCA, class certification, federal securities laws, federal appellate decision-making, removal jurisdiction, and federal appellate jurisdiction and procedure, have been published widely in law reviews, Bloomberg’s U.S. Law Week, BNA, For the Defense – DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, DRI – Certworthy, The Los Angeles Lawyer, The Legal Intelligencer, and Law360, and continuing legal education seminars conducted by the American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute—Voice of the Defense Bar, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Toronto).
Since 2008, Colin has served as chair of the Third Circuit Bar Association’s Publicity/Newsletter section and has edited the Association’s quarterly newsletter.
