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Partner
138 Mineola Blvd.
Mineola, NY 11501
Phone: 516-294-0300
Fax: 516-294-0477
Email: rcollins@cmgesq.com |
Practice Areas
Criminal Defense
Sports Law
Anabolic Steroids
Dietary Supplement
Sports Nutrition
Felony Cases
Civil Litigation
Sports Performance Drugs
Sports Nutrition
Bodybuilding Supplements
Performance-Enhancing Substances |
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Rick Collins, Esq., is a well-known figure in the bodybuilding, health, fitness and nutrition communities. A lawyer, author, lecturer and magazine columnist, he is a former Nassau County Assistant District Attorney. He has been awarded the highest accolades for legal abilities and ethical standards (AV-rating) from the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell directory of lawyers, and he is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
An internationally recognized legal authority on the non-medical use/abuse of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances, Rick has been involved in the legal defense of countless criminal cases involving the possession or sale of these compounds. He has personally defended individuals in a variety of jurisdictions from New York to California and at the borders of Canada and Mexico.
His high-profile cases have included professional bodybuilders and the chemist in the BALCO case. He has handled athletic doping cases involving the NCAA and professional sports. He has been consulted by amateur and professional bodybuilders, wrestlers, physicians, pharmacists, military servicemen, police departments, and various business entities. He is frequently retained to assist and consult with other criminal lawyers on the subject.
Rick is admitted to practice in the State courts of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas, in the courts of the District of Columbia, and in various federal courts. He was honored with the 2001 President's Award of the Nassau County Bar Association. He works on the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association, and has testified regarding criminal justice issues before the Council of the City of New York on behalf of the 60,000 members of the association.
He is a past president of the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County and an officer or member of numerous other state and national professional organizations including the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member), the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York State Defenders Association.
He is an annual faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, having served as Team Leader. He is on the Adjunct Faculty of Hofstra University Law School. He has appeared as a legal commentator on the nationally televised NewsTalk Television Network, and frequently lectures on trial practice and criminal law issues.
Rick has contributed chapters to two texts on sports nutrition. In the late 1990s, he created the informational resource www.SteroidLaw.com in order to help bridge the gap between the muscle world and the justice community and he is the author of the definitive legal treatise on anabolic steroids, LEGAL MUSCLE: Anabolics in America.
He has written extensively on the topic of non-medical steroid use for legal publications including the Criminal Justice Journal of the New York State Bar Association and The Champion, the publication of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He frequently writes for various fitness and bodybuilding publications, and is a monthly columnist for the nationally circulated Muscular Development magazine and a member of their Advisory Board.
Rick is the official legal advisor to the International Federation of BodyBuilders (the IFBB, formed in 1946, currently has 173 affiliated National Federations and is recognized by over 90 National Olympic Committees). He is also General Counsel to the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
Rick has been interviewed as a legal authority on performance enhancing substances in the film "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" (2008) and on national television talk and news shows, in talk radio interviews and by countless online and print publications, including USA Today, ESPN.com, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the Salt Lake Tribune, Newsday and Reason magazine. His practice and accomplished career have been profiled in periodicals as diverse as the prestigious New York Law Journal and the popular MuscleMag International.
A Nationally Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS), Rick has not only integrated his devotion to strength and health into his professional life, but has recently co-authored with best-selling author James Villepigue a book to share his insights. The definitive guide for men's inner and outer fitness through diet and exercise, Alpha Male Challenge is a Rodale publication and is now in fine bookstores everywhere.
Rick was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate at Hofstra University. After attending law school on a full academic scholarship and serving on the Law Review, he was admitted to the New York Bar. He served as an assistant district attorney for five years. Rick is a past Editor-in-Chief of the Nassau Lawyer, the journal of the Nassau County Bar.
He is also active in community programs and civic associations. In the past he has worked as a stage and film actor, and is a member in good standing of the Screen Actors Guild. To learn more about Rick, please go to www.rickcollins.com.
BAR ADMISSIONS
- New York, 1985
- Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, 2004
- District of Columbia and Texas, 2005
EDUCATION
- Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York, 1984
J.D.
- Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 1981
B.A.
- Member, Law Review
Special Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section (Past Executive Committee)
- Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County (Member, Past President)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member)
- New York State Defender's Association
- Federal Bar Council
- New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Nassau County (Member, Past Elected Director, Past Editor-in-Chief, Nassau Lawyer)
PUBLICATIONS
- Legal Muscle: Anabolics in America
- Alpha Male Challenge, Rodale, 2009. www.alphamalechallenge.com
- Muscular Development Magazine, monthly columnist.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2001 President's Award of the Nassau County Bar Association
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