About Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC is a prominent Michigan law firm recognized for delivering comprehensive legal counsel to businesses, municipalities, organizations, and individuals. With a history spanning more than 120 years, the firm has built a reputation for legal excellence, strategic problem-solving, and long-standing client relationships. Serving clients across Michigan and beyond, the firm combines deep legal knowledge with industry insight to guide complex matters involving corporate transactions, regulatory challenges, and high-stakes disputes.

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC provides personalized legal solutions supported by careful preparation, extensive experience, and a strong commitment to client service. Multidisciplinary teams collaborate across practice groups to address complex legal challenges while anticipating evolving business and regulatory issues. Through strategic planning, thorough analysis, and responsive counsel, the firm works to deliver efficient, practical outcomes that support client objectives and long-term success.

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC offers a broad range of legal services, including business and tax law, litigation, employer services, finance, real estate and bankruptcy law, municipal and public entity law, trusts and estates, and workers’ compensation. The firm serves a wide array of industries such as agriculture, construction, healthcare, technology, insurance, transportation, and local government. Attorneys regularly handle sophisticated corporate transactions, complex litigation, regulatory matters, and estate planning strategies.

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC is home to more than 100 attorneys practicing across multiple Michigan offices, including Lansing, Southfield, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Holland. The firm and its attorneys have earned numerous professional recognitions, including AV® Preeminent™ ratings, Best Lawyers in America honors, and Michigan Super Lawyers selections. Through decades of trusted service, industry leadership, and commitment to professional excellence, the firm continues to provide dependable legal representation for clients throughout Michigan and nationwide.

Practice Areas

Business & Tax
  • Agri-Business
  • Business Contracts
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Entity Selection, Organization & Planning
  • Family Owned Businesses
  • Food, Hospitality & Liquor Law
  • State and Local Licensing and Compliance
  • Women-Owned Business Certification Services
  • Construction Law
  • Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
  • Deal Team - Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy, Oil & Gas Law
  • Executive Compensation
  • General Counsel
  • Immigration Law
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Law
  • Intellectual Property, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
  • International Business & Trade
  • Licensing - Professional - Business - Government
  • Name Image Likeness (NIL) Legal Services Team
  • Non-Profit Corporate Law
  • Procurement Services
  • Public Finance - Bond
  • Small Business
  • Sports Law
  • Startup Entrepreneurial Emerging Development (S.E.E.D)
  • State and Local Licensing and Compliance
  • Tax Exempt Organizations
  • Tax Law
  • Technology Law
  • Telecommunications
  • Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Contracts
  • Women-Owned Business Certification Services
Employment Law
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
  • ERISA
  • Women-Owned Business Certification Services
  • Discrimination - Unlawful Harassment
  • Employment Litigation
  • Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Contracts
  • Labor Relations
Family Law
  • Adoption Law
  • Alternative Reproductive Technology Law
  • Divorce
  • Elder Law
Finance, Real Estate & Bankruptcy Law
  • Bankruptcy & Restructuring
  • Collections / Creditor - Debtor Rights
  • Credit Union Representation
  • Energy, Oil & Gas Law
  • Finance & Real Estate Development
  • Financial Institution Law
  • Property Tax
  • Real Estate Law
  • Foreclosure
  • Landlord-Tenant
  • Real Estate Development
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Securities Law
  • Tax Law
Health Care
  • Appellate Practice
  • Arbitration & Mediation
  • General Counsel
  • Health Care Fraud
  • HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance
  • Medical / Professional Malpractice Defense
Lawsuits & Disputes
  • Administrative Law
  • Adoption Law
  • Alternative Reproductive Technology Law
  • Appellate Practice
  • Arbitration & Mediation
  • Business & Commercial Litigation
  • Cannabis Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Divorce
  • Elder Law
  • Employment Litigation
  • Environmental Law
  • Equine Law
  • Family Law
  • Firearm Regulation Law
  • First Amendment - Media Law
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Defense
  • Mass Tort
  • Medical / Professional Malpractice Defense
  • Name Image Likeness (NIL) Legal Services Team
  • No-Fault Litigation
  • Transportation Law
  • Trust & Estate Litigation
  • Zoning & Land Use
Municipal & Public Entity Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Food, Hospitality & Liquor Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Condemnation & Eminent Domain
  • Election & Campaign Finance Law
  • Energy, Oil & Gas Law
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Governmental Relations
  • Library Law
  • Licensing - Professional - Business - Government
  • Municipal Litigation
  • Municipal Prosecution
  • Open Meetings Act
  • Property Tax
  • Public Finance - Bond
  • Renewable Energy
  • School Law Services
  • Tax Law
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation Law
  • Zoning & Land Use
Estate Planning
  • Foundational Estate Plans, Consisting of A Will, Revocable Trust, and Powers of Attorney for Medical and Financial Decisions
  • Estate Tax Planning Trusts
  • Marital Deduction and Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trusts Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
  • Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts
  • Special Needs Trusts
  • Charitable Trusts
  • Pet Trusts
  • Family LLC’s , Intentionally Defective Irrevocable Trusts and other Gift Leveraging Tools
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Estate and Trust Administration
  • Elder Law
  • Non-Profit Corporate Law
  • Tax Exempt Organizations
  • Tax Law
  • Trust & Estate Administration
  • Trust & Estate Litigation

Fees

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Office locations for Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC - Grand Rapids

1700 E Beltline Ave NE Ste 200, Grand Rapids, MI 49525

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC - Lansing

313 S Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48933

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC - Southfield

28411 Northwestern Hwy Suite 500, Southfield, MI 48034

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC - Detroit

333 W Fort St, Detroit, MI 48226

Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC - Holland

151 Central Ave #260, Holland, MI 49423