Michael Burg
Founding Shareholder | Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C.
Michael Burg is a mass torts, product liability and personal injury trial lawyer and founding shareholder at Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. in Englewood, Colorado. J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
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Englewood, Colorado 80112
Michael S. Burg is a founding shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, a plaintiffs’ trial firm based in Englewood, Colorado. Over a career of more than four decades he has represented injured people and families in mass tort, dangerous drug, product defect, gas explosion and insurance bad faith cases.
Burg was co-lead counsel in the Yaz/Yasmin and Ortho Evra multidistrict litigation and served on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the Zyprexa MDL. In 2019 he won a $58.5 million verdict for families whose donated relatives’ bodies were mishandled by the Biological Resource Center in Arizona, and in 2024 he obtained a $55.5 million verdict for a client hurt when a Sunbeam multi-cooker exploded. He wrote the book Trial by Fire, published in 2016.
He earned his law degree and his undergraduate degree at the University of Denver and was admitted in Colorado in 1976. He also practices in Arizona and Nebraska. His honors include induction into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, the Clarence Darrow Award and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’s Kenneth Norman Kripke Lifetime Achievement Award. He served as president of The National Trial Lawyers in 2010 and is an Advocate and Life Fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Colorado, 1976
- Nebraska, 1996
- Arizona, 2014
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1990
- J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- B.A., University of Denver, 1972
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice (Presidents Club)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Advocate and Life Fellow)
- The National Trial Lawyers (President, 2010)
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Colorado Bar Association
- Denver Bar Association
- Arapahoe County Bar Association
- The Melvin M. Belli Society
- Litigation Counsel of America (Fellow)
- Roscoe Pound Institute (Sustaining Fellow)
- Kenneth Norman Kripke Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, 2022
- Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, 2016
- Clarence Darrow Award, 2013
- Hall of Fame, The U.S. Legal 500, Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action, 2019
- Wiedemann and Wysocki Award, American Association for Justice, 2014
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Denver, 2013, 2018
- Top 100 Attorney, Civil Plaintiff, The National Trial Lawyers
- Colorado Super Lawyers, 2006-2025
- Best Lawyers in America, 2007-2025
- Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2013
- $58.5 Million Verdict: Compensatory and punitive damages for families who donated the bodies of deceased relatives to the Biological Resource Center in Arizona (2019).
- $55.5 Million Verdict: Compensatory and punitive damages for a client catastrophically injured when a Sunbeam multi-cooker exploded (2024).
- $31.8 Million Verdict: Personal injury verdict listed on his bio.
- $6.4 Million Verdict: Gas explosion verdict listed on his bio.
- $5.6 Million Verdict: Product defect verdict listed on his bio.
- $5.3 Million Verdict: Insurance bad faith verdict, including interest, listed on his bio.
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