GUY
M. BURNS Tampa Office
(813) 225-2500
guyb@jpfirm.com
SHAREHOLDER
PRACTICE AREAS
Representing plaintiffs in Class Actions, Securities, Financial and Consumer Litigation and Complex Commercial Litigation in both court and arbitration.
EXPERIENCE
Guy is the firm’s senior partner in the Tampa office. He has over 34 years of trial experience with over 100 trials in State and Federal Courts, as well as dozens of trials conducted before arbitration panels. He primarily represents plaintiffs in class actions and complex commercial, financial and consumer fraud litigation all on a contingency fee basis. He has successfully represented plaintiffs in numerous disputes against brokerage firms, investment advisors, insurance companies and other corporate and financial institutions. Over the course of his career, Guy has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of numerous individual clients and class action plaintiffs. Guy has been listed for many years as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for commercial litigation, and has regularly been named to the lists of “Florida’s Legal Elite” and “Bet the Company Trial Lawyers”.
DISTINCTIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
• Admitted to The Florida Bar - 1973
• American Bar Association Member
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Hillsborough County Bar Association Member
EDUCATION
• University of Missouri
B.A. – 1970; J.D. - 1973
