• J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
• B.S., magna cum laude, Accounting, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Florida

Alabama

Mississippi

• All state courts of Florida
• U.S. District Court – Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court – Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court – Southern District of Florida
• All state courts of Alabama
• U.S. District Court – Northern District of Alabama
• U.S. District Court – Middle District of Alabama
• U.S. District Court – Southern District of Alabama
• All state courts of Mississippi
• U.S. District Court – Northern District of Mississippi
• U.S. District Court – Southern District of Mississippi
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

• Federal Bar Association: Federal Litigation Section, Chair Federal Torts Committee
• Florida state Bar
• Alabama State Bar
• Mississippi Bar Association
• Birmingham Bar Association
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• DACCO Behavioral Health, Inc., Advisory Board Member

• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
• Best Lawyers in America: Commercial Litigation (2021)
• Mid-South Super Lawyers, Business Litigation (2018-2020)

• Representing several waste management companies in various class actions involving claims that deceptive fees were charged to customers.

• Representing a foundry allegedly fraudulently induced into a military contract to cast bomb bodies to impossible specifications.

• Representing a number of franchised gasoline station owners alleging that their franchisor, a major oil and petrochemical company, had engaged in unfair competition and commercial bad faith by favoring competing company-owned stations to the disadvantage of Mr. Burke's clients.

• Representing a pipe manufacturer in a wrongful death case arising from the improper unloading of pipe.

• Representing a water works product manufacturer in a case of wrongful death arising from improper installation of its product.

• Representing an international tractor truck manufacturer in a wrongful death case alleging that defective seatbelts had caused the plaintiff's death in an allegedly survivable accident.

• Representing a number of manufacturers of fire hydrants in prolonged five-year litigation against a major oil and petrochemical company whose grease allegedly caused excessive corrosion of internal parts, necessitating multi-million dollar recalls of hydrants in use throughout the country and world.

• Representing a bankruptcy trustee that sued the parent companies, investors and officers of a corporate debtor in bankruptcy that had operated a failed coal mine. Mr. Burke alleged on behalf of the trustee that the equity stakeholders and officers had breached fiduciary duties to the debtor and its creditors in a deepening insolvency situation.

• Representing an electric utility company accused of wantonly and negligently causing a fire that burned down the plaintiffs' home.