Firm Practice Areas
Bar Admissions
- Illinois Supreme Court, 1984
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1985
- Federal Trial Bar, 1988
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1992
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, 1995
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, 1998
Education
- University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 1984
- University of Illinois, B.S. (cum laude) (Phi Beta Kappa), 1981
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Robert M. Burke
Shareholder/Vice President |
Phone (312) 984-0248
Fax (312) 372-9818
E-Mail burker@jbltd.com
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Robert M. Burke is co-chair of Johnson & Bell's Transportation group. He concentrates his practice in transportation litigation, including trucking and railroad, products liability, general negligence, premises liability, and retail liability. He has successfully tried to verdict, premises liability, motor vehicle, product liability and traffic design lawsuits. He has argued and prevailed on appeals involving tort, constitutional and commercial issues before the Illinois and Indiana Appellate and Supreme Courts. Mr. Burke has frequently lectured in the United States and Canada about a variety of legal issues, including many presentations involving trucking and transportation matters. His success as a litigator has been recognized by his peers, who have nominated him with an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Burke is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel. He is also an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the Cook County Mandatory Arbitration System.
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Lectures/Presentations:
- Presentation for ALFA International, Inc. Trucking Seminar, May 5, 2011; conducted mock cross examinations of a trucking company's safety director to illustrate proper witness preparation and how to respond to the "Rules of the Road" approach by Plaintiffs' attorneys to trucking litigation.
- Presentation for Marriott Regional Claims Department, January 20, 2011; Innkeeper Liability Issues: Spoilation of Evidence and Piercing the Corporate Veil.
- Presentation for Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, CT, June 5, 2008; Everything You Wanted to Know About Suing a Foreign Manufacturer but Were Afraid to Ask.
- Presentation for ALFA International, Inc., May 2, 2008; Defending Independent Theories of Liability & Damages Against the Company.
- Presentation for Markel Insurance Company, Toronto, Ontario, September 27, 2007; Markel's "Let's Talk" about Trucking Issues.
- Presentation for Markel Insurance Company, Toronto, Ontario, June 12, 2007; Investigating & Defending Significant Trucking Accidents.
Mr. Burke has also been a featured speaker at many other forums discussing trucking, premises liability and product liability issues.
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