Practice Areas
Focused exclusively on commercial disputes, our dedicated team of seasoned attorneys is ready to take on our clients’ most challenging and complex business litigation:
- Business Torts
- Trade Secret Litigation
- Legal Malpractice Defense
- Fraudulent Transfer
- Fiduciary Disputes
- Trademark Litigation
- Securities Litigation
- Oil & Gas Disputes
A Winning Approach to High-Stakes Cases
Founded by Karen Burgess, Burgess Law represents both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation. Burgess Law is small by choice, with a talented, nimble, and scalable team that uses superior courtroom skills to deliver results for clients. Burgess Law’s core team tackles cases together, allowing them to leverage their collective knowledge while also delivering high levels of efficiency, communication, and service.
The firm augments this core group with expertise to build the right team for the specific case through outside counsel, appellate counsel, consultants, and experts to suit the size, complexity and geographic diversity of that case.
The firm’s agile structure allows it to step in quickly, learn a client’s business, and create and launch a proactive strategy for winning in the courtroom. And that courtroom-focused approach has yielded victories in high-profile cases in front of juries, judges, and arbitrators.
Burgess Law’s relationship with clients and its genuine interest in their success are at the heart of the firm’s work. Dedicated to solving challenges that are critical to the future of clients’ businesses, members of the Burgess Law team plan carefully, pivot when needed, and stay focused on winning when it matters most.
What Makes Us Different
Burgess Law is distinguished by a track record of success, a commitment to clients’ needs, and a results-focused approach that puts a strong emphasis on constantly driving cases toward a win.
Focused on the Courtroom
We are always ready and willing to take a case to court. Of course, that skill set—paired with preparation—can achieve an early and successful out-of-court resolution as well.
Proven Performers
Burgess Law may be small, but we are far from unproven. Our history of success in the courtroom and peer recognition rival some of the largest and most respected firms in the industry. When clients choose Burgess Law, they do so with the confidence that their choice is as smart and sound as it is bold and assertive.
We are results-oriented. Our small, nimble team of trial lawyers isn’t set up to drag cases out over years. Clients and co-counsel bring us in when it is time to assume a proactive, strategic posture and move forcefully toward the best possible outcome for their case.
Curious and Creative
In the world of business and commercial litigation, success often comes down to turning a complex and highly technical set of facts into a story that a jury of non-experts or a busy judge can easily understand. We view ourselves as storytellers and are always looking for new and unique ways to tell compelling stories that connect with diverse fact-finders in our constantly evolving society.
What We Do
-Won federal jury trial to protect iconic Texas entertainment venue and lifestyle brand Luckenbach’s trademark and successfully stopped multiple other infringers
-Represent Cook Children’s Health Care Plan in challenging HHSC director’s ultra vires acts in the State of Texas’ largest procurement ($10,000,000,000 annually for up to 12 years); State excluded all local, non-profit, hospital-based children’s plans and replaced them with national, for-profit insurance-based plans
-Tried case for healthcare venture capital/private equity firm against manager for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract to a judgment for approximately $10,000,000; settled on appeal
-Tried case for Roberts RV and Scott Roberts in tort and breach of contract suit regarding businesses and real estate holdings across the country (outcome pending)
-Tried international contract dispute case against the second largest telephone company in Mexico to a judgment after federal jury trial of over $35,000,000
-Successfully defended publicly traded company against $20,000,000 claim; jury awarded fees in our client’s favor
-Won federal jury verdict of $3,750,000, with a $276,000 offset, for local auto shop in federal court for paint supplier’s breach of implied warranty and fraud; settled confidentially before retrial on punitive damages
-Tried federal securities case on behalf of two plaintiffs; jury awarded $4,600,000 and court entered judgment on that amount
-Won jury trial for defendant and preserved it on appeal; plaintiff sought seven-figure lost profit recovery in cargo case
-Won defense verdict for commercial property owner after jury trial on breach of contract
-Tried case against fiduciary for breach and failure to disclose; settled midway through jury trial
-Successfully defended publicly traded company against multi-million dollar claim from contract manufacturer in arbitration; won counterclaim plus fees
-Won money damages as well as a declaration of defamation in international arbitration on behalf of the CEO of a company publicly traded in New Zealand
-Won AAA arbitration over insurance coverage of $4,600,000 jury verdict in securities case in Denver, Colorado
-Represented biomedical engineer in partnership dispute regarding medical device patents and royalties; confidential settlement reached at arbitration final hearing
-Represented high net worth family against financial and tax advisors who exposed them to significant tax liability and reached settlement with the last defendant two weeks before trial after nationwide depositions and monthly hearings
-Represented global, Austin-based software company in trade secret litigation against its primary competitor; confidential settlement reached two-weeks prior to trial after nationwide depositions and monthly hearings
-Defeated semi-conductor equipment brokers in federal court and prevailed again at the Fifth Circuit in trade secrets case against leading salesman and main competitor
-Defended software platform for Canadian emergency services against subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners; achieved dismissal
-Tried case for developer and owner of senior living facility in case against tenant operator; $2,800,000 judgment
-Defended Dominion Voting Systems against election denial lawsuit to plaintiff’s dismissal
-Represented owners of closely-held business with real estate worth over $80,000,000 in tort and breach of contract suit to a successful division of assets
-Represented Trust against oil company and individual to recover mineral rights under general warranty deed
-Represented investors selling working interest positions of oil and gas properties in the Bakken Shale against joint-venture partner for breach of fiduciary duty
-Represent Roger Beasley Autogroup and Henna Chevrolet, among other dealerships, in commercial disputes
-Represent attorneys in commercial litigation and defend them against breach of fiduciary duty claims
-Represent Enterprise Software as a Service company Planview in commercial litigation
-Represent national design and professional services firm WGI in commercial disputes
-Represent sports media company FloSports in commercial litigation
-Represent large municipally owned electric utility in major contract litigation