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Michele K. Burke

Riverfront Plaza, East Tower
951 East Byrd Street, Eighth Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Phone:  804.916.7153
Fax:  804.916.7253

Biography

Ms. Burke focuses her practice on trust and estate litigation, fiduciary litigation and business litigation matters involving directors and officers, professional liability, errors and omissions liability, breach of contract and tortious interference with contract.  Ms. Burke regularly works with clients in the banking, commercial development, engineering, accounting, manufacturing and mortgage industries.

Ms. Burke is a professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she teaches a third year practicum-based course on Fiduciary Litigation.

Legal Experience

  • LeClairRyan, Richmond, Virginia, 2003-Present 
  • Intern, Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, Washington, D.C., 2001

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Virginia State Bar
  • Virginia Bar Association

Distinctions

  • Orrell-Brown Award for Clinical Excellence, Children’s Law Center, University of Richmond School of Law, 2003
  • Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Trust & Estate Litigation, 2009-2010

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, University of Richmond School of Law, 2003
  • B.S., Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1999

Bar Admissions

  • Virginia

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia