Kevin Dietz on the Carl Collins Controversy

FAQs

• What happened with attorney Carl Collins?

  Kevin Dietz explains that Carl Collins III, a Michigan attorney many people know from the phone number on his billboards, is accused of filing false tax returns and faces seven counts of willfully failing to file individual and corporate tax returns, with the charges alleging he failed to report $550,000 in income. Mike Morse stresses that these are only accusations and charges, and that Collins is innocent until proven guilty.

• Can you switch attorneys in the middle of a personal injury case?

  Mike Morse says any client is allowed, in the middle of a case, to switch attorneys if they lose confidence or faith in their attorney, and that this applies to any attorney, not only one accused of something like tax evasion. He adds that Collins’s clients may want to get a second opinion.

• What do Mike, Kevin and Susan think of another firm's ad aimed at Carl Collins's clients?

  Kevin Dietz says it’s one thing to make people aware of their options and another to actively say an attorney is going down and they’d better get a new one. Susan Morse says that in her competitive business, she never said anything bad about the competition. Mike Morse says that in his profession, it’s a bad look to take cases from other law firms, and when callers are already represented, the firm tries to counsel them to work out the relationship.

• What does Kevin Dietz say he will bring to Open Mike?

  Kevin Dietz says he has always felt it was his job to tell the news straight and get to the truth, and that’s what listeners will get from him on the podcast: not something fake, but what he thinks. He predicts the format will let Mike really be himself and pull the curtain back on the law, showing real people with families trying to get the right results for clients.