The firm’s named partners, Tim Burns and Jesse Bair, are included on the 2025 list of the Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most-respected guides to the legal industry.
Burns Bair is pleased to share that name partners Timothy W. Burns and Jesse Bair have been named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers for their Bankruptcy Litigation practice. Read more
Burns Bair is delighted to announce that its partners have earned recognition nationwide among the premier legal professionals in Lawdragon’s 2024 edition of the 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers. Read more
On February 2, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ordered the Wisconsin Election Commission to place Congressman Dean Phillips’ name on the primary ballot in response to a lawsuit on his behalf brought by lawyers at Burns Bair LLP and Foster Garvey. Phillips had sued the commission over his exclusion from the ballot, which he said was done without considering whether he met requirements for national news media recognition necessary to be put on the ballot under Wisconsin statutes. Read more
Burns Bair is proud to announce that the firm has been recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Law Firms, ranked by Best Lawyers, as one of the top firms for Insurance Law in Wisconsin. Read more
ST. PAUL, MN — A Minnesota federal court has turned aside efforts by TIG Insurance Company to deny coverage to three sexual abuse survivors who had obtained stipulated judgments against the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate religious order for negligent retention of one of the Catholic Church’s worst sexual predators. This case will now go to a jury trial with a strong signal that insurance funds may be available to compensate victims of sexual abuse even in states that the insurance industry thinks of as having tough standards for showing that sexual abuse incidents are “accidents” covered by general liability insurance policies. Read more
In arguments before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn in New York, Burns Bair secured a significant discovery request on behalf of the committee of unsecured creditors of the bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. The court’s order will allow the committee to gather more information about the financial solvency of a diocesan insurer to indemnify clerical abuse claimants. The insurer, Arrowood Indemnity Co., provided liability insurance with no aggregate limit for several of the years that are relevant to the abuse claims.
Read more about the ruling in Law360 (password-protected) here.
Burns Bair has filed a lawsuit following threats from Republican lawmakers to impeach Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, saying that impeachment would be a violation of her constitutional right to free speech. Read more
In a case involving the bankruptcy filed in May 2023 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, Judge William J. Lafferty of the Northern District of California has issued an order confirming that the Unsecured Creditors Committee, which represents more than 325 sexual abuse survivors, now has broad authority to intervene in an insurance coverage adversary proceeding between the Diocese and its insurers. Read more
Burns Bair is pleased to announce that the firm’s two partners have been honored in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and one of the most-respected guides to the legal industry. Read more
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