 Practice Areas He was designated as Summation's featured litigator for two to five person firms. He is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Alabama, United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits, and in the Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama. Mr. Burns is a Certified Alabama Mediator; Board-Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy; and a member of the following: the American Bar Association the Alabama Bar Association, the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, the South Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, and the Mobile Bar Association (Chairman, Law & Technology, Civil Practice, State & County Courts Committee).
Mr. Burns’s past and/or present civil affiliations include - Downtown YMCA, former President, Board of Directors
- Municipal Park Baseball, former Board of Directors
- Mary B. Austin Parent-Teacher Association (PTA)
- Former PTA President, 1988; Mirror Lake Racquet Club
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1998-1999
- Leadership Mobile 2000; and Habitat for Humanity
- President, 2004. Member of the Board of Directors of The Ono Island Property Owners Association.
Pete Burns graduated from Centre College of Kentucky in 1971. He graduated from Cumberland School of Law Cum Laude in 1975 where he served as the Executive Editor of Cumberland Law Review. He was also a member of the Order of Barristers and as well as the three-person Regional Championship Moot Court Team. From 1975 to 1976 he was Law Clerk to Associate Justice Hugh Maddox, Supreme Court of Alabama. |
