Mr M. Brett Burns > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr M. Brett Burns

415.975.3725 mbrettburns@huntonak.com View profile

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 industry, in a wide range of employment 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 litigation, 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).

He has led the defense of more than 120 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.

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