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John D. Burns
John D. Burns focuses his practice on financial services litigation, creditors' rights in bankruptcy and general commercial litigation. Mr. Burns has represented clients in bankruptcy proceedings throughout North Carolina and in Delaware and represents creditors in corporate loan workouts, commercial foreclosures, receivership matters and collections cases. His extensive and varied general litigation experience includes jury trials and motions practice in all North Carolina state and federal courts, the state courts of California, and appellate cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
John D. Burns focuses his practice on financial services litigation, creditors' rights in bankruptcy and general commercial litigation. Mr. Burns has represented clients in bankruptcy proceedings throughout North Carolina and in Delaware and represents creditors in corporate loan workouts, commercial foreclosures, receivership matters and collections cases. His extensive and varied general litigation experience includes jury trials and motions practice in all North Carolina state and federal courts, the state courts of California, and appellate cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Representative cases include the defense of a national homebuilder client in national and statewide class action cases involving allegations of deceptive lending practices; representation of a multinational agricultural and food services company in negotiations with the North Carolina Employment Security Commission; and obtaining the first reported jury award in North Carolina for neurological injuries related to exposure to toxigenic mold. His pro bono practice has focused on representation of children denied Medicaid coverage for life-saving bone-marrow transplants as well as representation of tenants in wrongful and constructive eviction cases.
Mr. Burns is a deacon and youth leader in the First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, and is chairman of the City of Raleigh's Environmental Advisory Board. He is a former vice chairman of the Wake County Democratic Party and has directed campaigns on the local and statewide level. Mr. Burns also serves on the chairman's council of the Downtown Raleigh Alliance.
Mr. Burns earned his bachelor of arts degree from Davidson College and his juris doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he was on the editorial staff of the Wake Forest Law Review and a member of the national board of governors of the American Bar Association, Law Student Division. After graduating from Wake Forest, Mr. Burns served as a law clerk to Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt of the Eastern District of N.C. and practiced law in High Point and Raleigh, N.C.
He has been named to Business North Carolina Magazine's "Legal Elite" four times, in Litigation (2007 and 2011), Bankruptcy (2009) and Young Guns (Best Under 40) (2010 and 2011). He was also listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Stars magazine in 2010 and North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine in 2011 .
For more information about Legal Elite honors and methodology, please visit the Business North Carolina website.
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