When a lawyer refers a case, they are making a professional judgment with their name on it: who will actually get this client the result the case deserves? That judgment is how most of the serious cases in this firm arrive, and we have spent 25 years making sure the lawyers who make it never regret it.
Refer a case to Collins Law Group and your client gets trial lawyers who prepare from day one, experts and investigation funded at the front end, and a defense bar that knows we will pick a jury if the number is not right. You get a firm that honors your fee, respects your client relationship, and keeps you as informed and involved as you want to be.
Our verdicts and settlements exceed $1.5 billion, and they include the largest single-plaintiff personal injury verdict in Illinois history: $363 million, tried by this firm’s own trial lawyers. The results referring counsel care about run through every corner of our injury practice: an $8.5 million recovery in a wrongful death bus accident case, a $4.7 million jury verdict in a medical negligence case against a Chicago-area hospital, a $2.8 million wrongful death verdict, and a $2.5 million premises liability settlement, among many others you can review on our case results page. Our work has been recognized by Top Verdict, Best Lawyers, and the National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers.
Your client is treated like our client, and stays your client. We do not solicit a referred client’s other matters, and the relationship you built stays yours. What comes back to you is a client who was taken care of, and who remembers you sent them to the right place.
Your fee is protected in writing at the outset. We have paid millions of dollars in referral and co-counsel fees over 25 years, including nearly $2.5 million to referring counsel in a single case. Every arrangement complies with Illinois Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(f): the client agrees to the division and each firm’s share, the agreement is confirmed in writing at the beginning of the engagement, and the arrangement is structured with the joint responsibility the rule requires. No handshake deals, no chasing your fee at the end.
You choose your level of involvement. Full referral, co-counsel with shared workstreams, or trial counsel engagement where your firm keeps the file and we come in to try the case. In every structure, we advance the case costs and you receive regular substantive updates.
Serious injury and death cases against defendants with the resources to pay for the harm they caused: catastrophic injury, wrongful death, commercial trucking and transportation, medical malpractice and birth injury, defective products, rideshare and autonomous vehicle liability, nursing home abuse and neglect, and environmental and toxic exposure. Illinois venues are home ground, and we co-counsel with firms nationwide.
Send the case through the form below, or call or email John directly. We run conflicts and respond quickly, typically the same week, so you and your client are never left waiting. If we take the case, the fee agreement is signed up front, we fund the costs, and trial preparation starts immediately. If it is not a case for us, we tell you fast and, where we can, point you to the right firm.
Prefer to talk it through first?
John D. Risvold, Partner
Collins Law Group, P.C.
Phone: (630) 527-1595
Email: jrisvold@collinslaw.com
Read John’s bio
Every conversation is confidential, and referral inquiries come straight to a partner, not an intake queue.
Yes. Referral and co-counsel fees are honored in full compliance with Illinois Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(f), confirmed in writing with the client at the outset. We have paid millions in referral fees over 25 years.
Entirely up to you: full referral, co-counsel, or trial counsel engagement, and we keep referring counsel informed throughout regardless of structure.
No. We do not solicit a referred client’s other matters.
We assess referrals promptly and typically respond the same week on whether we are taking the case.
Yes. We co-counsel with firms nationwide on Illinois venue cases and on national litigation where our trial experience adds value.
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