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Peter M. Burke
Westfield: 908-233-6800
pburke@lindabury.com

For more than thirty years, Peter M. Burke has practiced in the areas of litigation and corporate law. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. Peter has litigated and tried a wide variety of civil cases in the state and federal courts in New Jersey and New York. The range of cases include, but are not limited to, corporate and commercial disputes, intracompany disputes among shareholders or partners, discrimination claims, will contests, products liability and warranty claims, franchise disputes, defense of fire insurance claims and labor matters. In addition to litigating matters in court, he has participated as an advocate in a variety of arbitrations and mediations as an alternative method of resolving disputes. In a non-advocacy role, he has served as a court-appointed mediator in the Superior Court of New Jersey and as a court-appointed arbitrator in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

In addition to his trial practice, he counsels a number of corporations in various facets of their business activities.

Peter has been involved in various civic and charitable endeavors during the course of his career. He has served as a member of the board of trustees of the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and as president of the Summit Speech School. He has likewise served six year terms as a member of the board of trustees of both the Somerset Hills Adult Day Center (four years as president) and the Somerset Hills Chapter of the American Red Cross (two years as president).

Peter has been annually recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer in the areas of business or estate and trust litigation since 2005.

Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1973
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1978
U.S. Supreme Court, 1981
U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1987
New York, 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1995
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1996
U.S. Tax Court, 1996

Honors/Awards:
Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers*, "business litigation or estate and trust litigation" in 2005-2010.
For methodology, see http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.

Memberships:
The Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey
New Jersey State Bar Association
Union County Bar Association

Education:
Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1973
Fairfield University, A.B., 1969

*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Peter M. Burke


Practice:
Chancery and Equity
Contract Litigation
Noncompetition Litigation

Estate Litigation
Closely Held Business Law
Employment Law
Business Litigation
Commercial Litigation

Business Arbitration

 
 

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