Derek L. Watkins

Contact Information

Phone: (313) 496-9418
Fax: (313) 965-0268
Email: Contact me directly

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Area of Practice

• Employee benefits, particularly multiemployer (Taft-Hartley)
• Pension
• Vacation and Holiday
• Health Care
• Apprenticeship Funds

Derek Watkins joined Sachs Waldman as an attorney in 2004 after working for the firm as a law clerk while in law school. Mr. Watkins' practice is devoted to the representation of jointly trusteed, Taft-Hartley construction and building trades fringe benefit funds in Michigan.

After serving four years in the United States Marine Corps, Mr. Watkins graduated from Oakland University in 2000, receiving a bachelor of science in Environmental Health, with Departmental Honors. In 2004 he received his Juris Doctor (cum laude) from Wayne State University Law School, where he served as symposium director for the Journal of Law in Society, president of the Environmental Law Society and won the Ralph M. Freeman Foundation Scholarship, the Ernest and Freda Goodman Scholarship, a Haywood Burns Fellowship and two successive Equal Justice America Legal Services Fellowships.

Mr. Watkins is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, and is admitted to practice before all Michigan Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan.