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Riley C. Collins

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Education

  • Columbia Law School
    J.D., 2021; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Head Managing Editor, Columbia Journal of European Law
  • Dartmouth College
    B.A., 2018, History, cum laude

Government Service

Law Clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth L. Harris, Colorado Court of Appeals 

Judicial Extern to the Honorable Roslynn R. Mauskopf, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York 

Judicial Extern to the Honorable Joseph C. Spero, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Colorado

Biography

Riley Collins represents clients in complex commercial litigation and class actions. He handles cases across a range of industries, including consumer products and services, telecommunications, and construction and engineering.

Before joining WTO, Riley gained valuable experience as a summer associate and law clerk in the litigation group of an international law firm in New York City. He also served as a law clerk to a Colorado Court of Appeals judge. As a law student, he externed for a federal magistrate judge and a federal district court judge. 

Cases

  • As a member of the WTO team defending a leading appliance manufacturer in two putative class actions involving appliance service contracts, supported briefing that led to dismissal without prejudice and stay of all discovery in both cases.
  • Supporting fact development, legal strategy, and successful mediation in five commercial actions, including cases involving a software development contract, an international shipping contract, a put option contract, and a business divorce.
  • Supporting fact development work in complex commercial litigation involving more than 80,000 produced documents, including leading preparation of a large manufacturing company's corporate representative for their deposition in manufacturing supply contract dispute.

Other Experience

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Legal Memberships, Activities, and Honors

Colorado Bar Association

Personal Interests

Fly fishing, skiing, road trips

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