Contributor

Michael Burg

Attorney and Founder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine

Michael S. Burg J.D. is one of America’s leading trial lawyers, author of the best-selling book, Trial by Fire: One Man’s Battle to End Corporate Greed and Save Lives, (BenBella Books 2016), and founding shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine. A legal champion for victims of corporate and individual malfeasance, negligence, overreach and abuse, Burg began his career fighting for the underdog and has gone on to successfully litigate some of the country’s most high-profile cases of the past four decades. Burg was inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame in 2016, is an Advocate and Life Fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a Sustaining Fellow of the Roscoe Pound Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Law at his alma mater the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.