Profile

With extensive experience handling healthcare antitrust matters, Jim Burns litigates antitrust and related claims in trial and appellate courts across the nation. He also represents clients, including numerous healthcare providers, insurers, and healthcare systems, before the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission on a wide variety of antitrust matters, including mergers and governmental investigations. He has authored numerous articles on various healthcare antitrust matters, and regularly speaks at professional and industry seminars.

In addition to his healthcare practice, Jim also focuses on assisting insurance industry clients with the unique antitrust issues they encounter, and he assists clients in a number of industries on antitrust compliance, distribution-related antitrust issues, and the application of the antitrust laws to intellectual property rights.


Bar Admissions

District of Columbia

California (inactive)

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles, J.D., 1986, National Moot Court Team, Best Brief Award - UCLA Moot Court Competition, Simon Scholarship
  • Colgate University, A.B., 1983, cum laude

Areas of Practice

  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation
  • Business & Commercial
  • Health Care
  • Hospitals and Health Care Systems
  • Litigation

Blogs

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema's Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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