Our Professionals
WILLIAM HARRISON FORD, III
Education
Loyola University of Los Angeles (1971) J.D.
Santa Clara University (1966) B.A.
Bio
William H. Ford, III is an AV rated partner in Collins|Ford LLP, a California law firm representing clients statewide in connection with insurance-related issues including the duty to defend, “Cumis” and “Bad Faith” matters in the state and federal courts. In addition, Mr. Ford and his firm regularly handle matters relating to lawyer professional negligence in connection with coverage.
Bill is a graduate of Santa Clara University and the Loyola University School of Law where he was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. Before law school, Bill served in Vietnam as an officer with the 101st Airborne Division.
He is a proud member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association (Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section), the Roscoe Pound Institute, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, a founding member of California Insured Counsel (CIC) (an appellate group that regularly submits amicus briefs on important issues involving insurance coverage) and United Policyholders.
For many years Bill has been active in monitoring virtually every aspect of the development of California insurance law as an advocate, lecturer and commentator.
Bill is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), the preeminent national forum for lawyers with demonstrated scholarship, creativity, ethics and efficiency.
MICHAEL D. COLLINS
Education
Loyola Marymount Law School, Los Angeles, California
Bio
A graduate of Loyola Marymount Law School, Los Angeles, California, Michael Collins began practicing law in California in 1993 where he concentrated on complex insurance coverage and bad faith actions.
In 1997 he was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and embarked on a solo practice concentrating on insurance coverage, bad faith, business torts, copyright and trademark litigation, civil rights and personal injury.
Mr. Collins has extensive federal and state court litigation experience in first and third-party insurance coverage, insurance bad faith, trade secret, trust, business torts, and civil rights actions. This experience has been earned at both the trial and appellate levels.
In 2013 Mr. Collins returned to active practice in California, of counsel to Collins|Ford LLP and is now a Partner in the firm.