Derek L. Watkins

Contact Information

Phone: (313) 496-9418
Fax: (313) 965-0268
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Area of Practice

• Employee Benefits

Derek Watkins joined Sachs Waldman in 2004. Mr. Watkins' practice is devoted to the representation of multiemployer fringe benefit funds and focuses on collection and individual participant matters.

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 Federal Bar Association, and is admitted to practice before all Michigan Courts and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.