Suzanne Burnett
Partner | Burnett Injury Group
Suzanne Burnett is a motor vehicle accidents, catastrophic injuries and premises liability trial lawyer and partner at Burnett Injury Group in Largo, Maryland. Admitted in Maryland and District of Columbia; J.D., University of Baltimore School of Law.
Meet Suzanne
Suzanne V. Burnett is a Maryland personal injury trial lawyer and a partner at Burnett Injury Group, which has offices in Largo and Annapolis. She represents victims of negligence in car, truck, motorcycle and pedestrian accidents, serious premises liability cases, catastrophic injuries, sexual abuse and nursing home abuse and neglect.
A Maryland native, Burnett graduated with honors from the University of Baltimore School of Law and began her career as a judicial law clerk to Judge Laura Ripken in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. She then worked for a firm that represented only personal injury plaintiffs and later became a founding partner of Potter Burnett Law, a personal injury and medical malpractice firm in Bowie, Maryland.
Burnett is admitted in Maryland and Washington, D.C., the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was president of the Anne Arundel County Bar Association for 2024-2025, serves on the boards of the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Association for Justice, and received the association’s Women’s Caucus Award in 2026.
The Daily Record named her to its Top 100 Women in 2023, and Super Lawyers has recognized her as a Maryland Super Lawyer since 2025 after a run of Rising Star listings from 2013 to 2024.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Virginia Tech, B.A.
- University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D.
- Admitted to the Maryland bar
- Admitted to the District of Columbia bar
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Practice Areas
- Anne Arundel County Bar Association (President, 2024-2025; Board of Trustees, 2013-present)
- Maryland State Bar Association (Board of Directors)
- Maryland Association for Justice (Board Member; Co-Chair, Women's Caucus; Board, Political Action Committee)
- Prince George's County Bar Association
- Society for Women Trial Lawyers
- Maryland Association for Justice, Women's Caucus Award (2026)
- Super Lawyers, Maryland (2025-present)
- Super Lawyers Rising Star, Maryland and Washington, D.C. (2013-2024)
- The Daily Record, Empowering Women Award (2025)
- The Daily Record, Top 100 Women (2023)
- Leading Lawyers, Annapolis & Central Maryland (2022-2023)
- The Daily Record, Leading Women (2019)
- The National Women Trial Lawyers Association, Top 25 (2019)
- Anne Arundel County Bar Association, President's Award (2018)
- The Daily Record, 20 in Their 20s (2012)
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