About
Thomas A. Burns is a board-licensed appellate expert with full-size experience defending and prosecuting court cases on the trial and appellate degrees, in each federal and state courts. Before returning to Florida, Mr. Burns practiced for 5 years in Washington, D.C., with the appellate departments of Sidley Austin LLP and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. In Tampa, Mr. Burns practiced for 3 years within the appellate departments of Hill Ward Henderson and Greenberg Traurig, P.A. In those capacities, Mr. Burns represented main companies from various industries in a wide sort of disputes. Mr. Burns has considerable revel in with appellate matters. He has drafted deserves briefs, amicus briefs, petitions for certiorari, petitions for writs of prohibition, and mandamus petitions in the Supreme Court of the US, the USA Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Eleventh, D.C., and Federal Circuits, and various nation ultimate and intermediate appellate courts—consisting of all five Florida district courts of attraction. In doing so, Mr. Burns has offered a dozen oral arguments earlier than the USA Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Second District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida. Finally, Mr. Burns has accomplished lead appellate trial help in subjects consisting of a $two hundred million coverage-insurance and bad-religion dispute, a $10 million white collar twine fraud and identification robbery prosecution, and a $400,000 breach of contract dispute in lengthy federal jury trials. Before getting into personal practice, Mr. Burns served as a regulation clerk to the Honorable Susan H. Black of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Burns graduated from the Duke University School of Law cum laude in 2003, wherein he changed into elected Executive Editor of the Duke Law Journal and was the David Siegel Scholar. Mr. Burns graduated from Duke University magna cum laude in 2000. › ›
Location
Legal Issues
Costs
Certificates
The Florida Bar
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Founding Shareholder
Burns, P.A.
2012 - Senior Associate
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
2011 - Senior Associate
Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A.
2009 - Mid-Level Associate
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
2007 - Junior Associate
Sidley Austin LLP
2004
Educations
Graduation year: 2000
Graduation year: 1996
Graduation year: 1998
