MEDIATORS
Robert J. Burns, Jr.
Robert J. Burns, Jr. was graduated from the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert School of Law in 1991. He entered private practice immediately and has been almost exclusively involved in litigation matters since that time, serving as lead counsel in trials in 17 different Louisiana parishes.
In 2002, he was nominated by the President of the Louisiana State Bar Association to the first class of "Leadership LSBA." In 2005, he was elected to the Baton Rouge Bar Association Board of Directors and continues that service today. He has also served as an elected member of the Louisiana State Bar Association House of Delegates since 2004 and is a partner with the law firm of Perry, Atkinson, Balhoff, Mengis & Burns, L.L.C. He is also a mediator, having established a mediation practice in 2000. He is a partner and managing member of Perry Dampf Dispute Solutions, a mediation firm founded in that same year. Mr. Burns has conducted more than 800 mediations and in 2009 completed the Harvard Negotiation Institute Course on Mediation.
Mr. Burns has four sons and is married to Melissa Reeves Burns of New Roads, Louisiana.
Areas of Concentration
Employment Law
Insurance
General Casualty
Transportation Law
Premise Liability
Education
B.A., Louisiana State University (1988)
J.D., Louisiana State University School of Law (1991)
Background
Served as mediator in over 800 matters
Over 150 Trials in 17 Different Parishes
Twenty-one years of practice in Insurance, Personal Injury
and General Casualty
Court Appointed Mediator and Arbitrator since 1998
Section Council Member of Louisiana State Bar Association Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2010
American College of Civil Trial Mediators, Fellow
Harvard Negotiation Institute Program on Mediation, Sep. 2009
Elected to the Louisiana State Bar Association
House of Delegates, 2004-2006
Member, 2003 Class, Leadership LSBA
Past Speaker and 2003 Co-chair of LSBA Annual Seminar
"Practicing Law -The Early Years"
