Reid Collins & Tsai


Reid Collins & Tsai LLP is an American law firm established in 2009 with offices in New York City, Austin, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Montecito. The firm represents plaintiffs in complex civil litigation on a mixed-fee or contingency-fee basis.

Practice areas

Key practice areas include financial fraud, insolvency cases, professional liability, fiduciary litigation, bankruptcy litigation, mediation and whistleblower actions.

History

The firm was founded in November 2009 in Austin with 9 lawyers who had previously worked at Latham & Watkins, Diamond McCarthy and the U.S. Department of Justice with William T. Reid, IV, P. Jason Collins, and Lisa S. Tsai serving as founding partners. Among their first cases were the bankruptcies of Stanford International Bank, Thelen LLP and Cornerstone Ministries Investments. In 2010, hedge fund Highland Capital Management hired the firm to represent their interests in a suit against Credit Suisse on a contingency-fee basis. By the end of 2010, the company had 15 lawyers. In October 2011, RCT partner Marina Marmolejo was appointed as a federal judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
In 2013, the firm opened a Dallas office with Eric Madden and J. Benjamin King as bankruptcy litigation partners, joined later by Brandon V. Lewis. In October 2014 the Dallas office moved to Thanksgiving Tower.
In November 2018, the firm added former Munger, Tolles & Olson partner Marc T.G. Dworsky as a partner.

Notable cases