Kendall Burr practices general civil litigation, focusing primarily on complex commercial and financial services disputes.  Prior to joining the firm in November 2009, Mr. Burr practiced at Mayer Brown LLP in Houston and at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in New York.  He has litigation and arbitration experience in a wide variety of matters involving, among others, director liability, corporate opportunity, unfair competition, employment, oil and gas, trademark, copyright, patent, contract, construction, and securities claims.  Mr. Burr represented clients in several high-profile federal trials, including author J.K. Rowling in a well-publicized trial that resulted in a finding of copyright infringement against the publisher of an unauthorized dictionary based on her Harry Potter books. 

Before graduating from Columbia Law School in 2005, Mr. Burr worked for one year as an intern for the National Hockey League’s legal department, and also clerked for the U.S. Army JAG Corps.  Mr. Burr also spent several summers volunteering in Mozambique and served a two-year mission to northern Portugal.  He enjoys sports, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2001, and completed his first marathon in 2009.  Mr. Burr lives in Humble with his wonderful wife and three amazing children.

EDUCATION
J.D., Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2005
B.A., Brigham Young University, cum laude and with honors, 2002

PUBLICATIONS
Making Sense of New York’s Corporate Opportunity Doctrine, co-written with Jonathan Rosenberg, 80 N.Y. ST. BAR J. 10 (2008) (cover article).

The Evolution of the International Law of Alienability: The 1997 Land Law of Mozambique as a Case Study, 43 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 961 (2005).

BAR ADMISSIONS
Texas
New York

AFFILIATIONS
Houston Bar Association
Texas Young Lawyers Association
J. Reuben Clark Law Society

LANGUAGES
Portuguese (fluent)
Spanish (conversational)