Mr M. Brett Burns > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr M. Brett Burns
Work Department
Labor & Employment
Position
Partner
Career
For more than thirty years, Michael Brett Burns has represented leading employers and management, particularly in the retail and professional services industries, in a wide range of employment, wage and hour, and public accommodations-related matters. Brett, a partner in the labor and employment practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth, focuses on complex litigation matters, and regularly defends clients in employment class actions, wage and hour class, collective, and representative actions, public accommodations class actions, and federal agency pattern or practice matters (including lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state attorneys general). Brett also has an extensive practice and experience representing California employers regarding allegations filed under the Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) in federal and state courts.
He has led the defense of more than 150 class, collective, representative, and pattern or practice actions, tried complex collective actions and pattern or practice cases to juries, and secured verdicts for clients in multiple single-plaintiff jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations, earning national recognition.
In addition to his litigation and arbitration practice, Brett counsels clients on litigation avoidance strategies and on creative solutions for complicated employment, wage and hour, and public accommodation law challenges. For more information, please view his bio at https://www.huntonak.com/en/people/brett-burns.html.
Memberships
Admitted to the California and Texas State Bars
Education
- JD, The University of Texas School of Law, Member and Associate Editor, Texas Law Review, 1991
- BS, Texas A&M University, 1988
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings