Jesse Bair is a founding partner at Burns Bair LLP.  Currently, Jesse devotes the majority of his practice to working with sexual-abuse survivors and other tort claimants and their attorneys on the most significant insurance issues of the day, having been retained as special insurance counsel by creditors’ committees in twelve of the largest religious-affiliated bankruptcies in the country: the Diocese of Rochester, New York; the Diocese of Syracuse, New York; the Diocese of Albany, New York; the Diocese of Buffalo, New York; the Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York; the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York; the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland; the Franciscan Friars of California, Inc.; the Bishop of Oakland, California; the Bishop of Santa Rosa, California; the Bishop of Sacramento, California; and the Archbishop of San Francisco, California. Jesse also represents the post-confirmation settlement trust pursuing insurance recoveries from non-settling insurers in connection with the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota bankruptcy.