J Collins is a legal reporter and seasoned litigator with a decade of experience across federal regulatory, discovery, and investigative matters, now covering federal issues at Tax Analysts. His background spans commercial litigation, antitrust, environmental, white-collar, international trade, product liability, and bankruptcy work, with prior roles at Baker Botts, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and as an AI attorney at LexisNexis. He blends practical courtroom and agency experience with AI modeling to improve legal research and deliverables, and he has a track record of supervising complex investigations and coordinating multi-stakeholder recall and enforcement efforts. Passionate about mentorship, he has tutored hundreds of LSAT students—helping many achieve double-digit score gains and perfect scores—and actively supports neurodivergent future attorneys. Based in Falls Church, VA, he is also an advocate for leadership and mental health in the legal profession and brings a strategic, multidisciplinary perspective to federal legal reporting.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Juris Doctor at University of Virginia School of Law
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Political Science at The University of Alabama
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