Mr. Kerry Jardine acts as the firm’s Managing Shareholder and serves on its Executive Committee. He has been instrumental in the firm’s management, practice group formation, global strategy, and direction for over 15 years. Established in 1976, Burg Simpson now has over 50 lawyers and five offices nationally.
The firm’s focus is on trial work and plaintiff litigation, with nine main practice areas: Accidents and Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Mass Torts, Business Litigation, Construction Defects, Defective Products, Employment Litigation and Labor Law, Workers’ Compensation, and Securities/Bond Fraud.
Prior to receiving his JD/MBA in 1987, Mr. Jardine worked several years for a Fortune 500 company. He received his JD/MBA from Brigham Young University and joined Burg Simpson two years later in 1989. He litigates extensively in a wide range of personal injury actions, including automobile and trucking accidents, unsafe products, and gas explosion cases.
During Mr. Jardine’s years of leadership, Burg Simpson has developed into a national firm and has received many accolades including recently being named the Number One Products Liability Firm in the USA by Martindale-Hubbell.
Burg Simpson has also been named by the National Trial Lawyers as one of America’s 25 Most Influential Law Firms. Also during Mr. Jardine’s leadership, Burg Simpson has been recognized as one of America’s leading law firms, according to the 2011 through 2015 editions of the U.S. Legal 500.
Mr. Jardine is also one of the nation’s most experienced attorneys in gas related explosions. Over the past 20 years, he has tried and handled more than 30 gas explosion cases around the country – explosions at gas plants, commercial districts, and residential areas.
EDUCATION:
- J.D., 1987, Brigham Young University Law School
- M.B.A., 1987, Brigham Young University School of Business
- B.A., 1983, Brigham Young University
BAR ADMISSIONS:
- Colorado, 1989
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- The National Trial Lawyers (NTL)
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA)
- Denver Bar Association
- Arapahoe County Bar Association (ACBA)
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