Kahn Smith & Collins, P.A.

View the profile as it appeared in Maryland Rising Stars 2009 (PDF)

View the profile as it appeared in Maryland Super Lawyers 2009 (PDF)

Mention employment law, labor unions, collective bargaining or workers’ compensation and Kahn, Smith & Collins is the firm to know. For more than 30 years, members of the firm have worked to set workplace standards to protect employees and their families. An employment and personal injury law firm, Kahn, Smith & Collins represents workers and their unions in private and public employment throughout the region and the nation.

LAWYERS FOR WORKING PEOPLE

The firm’s litigation attorneys represent employees who suffer from medical malpractice, vehicular collisions, defective medical products, workplace accidents and wrongful discharge. Andrew H. Kahn, a founding member, is a recipient of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association’s Civil Justice Award for his tireless work to extend the rights of employees under Maryland’s workers’ compensation laws. David V. Diggs is a leading advocate for clients in divorce and custody matters, and he serves as chair of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association’s family law section. Francis J. Collins has won landmark verdicts in employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases. The Daily Record named nurse-attorney Lois A. Fenner-McBride one of the Top 100 Women in Maryland three times.

LAWYERS FOR LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

The firm’s labor lawyers provide counsel, advice and assistance to labor unions and their members, and are skilled in negotiation, mediation, trial and appellate practice. Joel A. Smith, a firm principal, is a fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. The firm’s labor lawyers have organized major bargaining units among teachers, artists, professional umpires, retail workers and building trades employees. The work of Keith J. Zimmerman and Joel Smith has helped create the law for public school, higher education and executive branch employees within Maryland. The firm is particularly pleased that labor associate, Darragh “Jack” Inman, has been named to Rising Stars.

SPECIALIZED PRACTICE AREAS

The firm offers specialized services that include representation of professionals, health-care providers and social workers in licensing and regulatory proceedings, executive contract negotiation and enforcement, tort and family law mediation, and counsel to performers in the music, arts and entertainment industries, and nonprofit and community organizations.

RESPECTED PROFESSIONALS

Members of Kahn, Smith & Collins have served as lecturers for the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, the Maryland Institute for the Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, the National Labor College of the AFL-CIO George Meany Center and the National Business Institute. Firm members have been recognized as outstanding among their peers in The Best Lawyers in America and Baltimore magazine, and have achieved the highest AV peer-review rating in Martindale-Hubbell®.

Everyone deserves legal representation that sets the standards.