Admitted to Ohio and Kentucky and numerous federal courts, since 1978 Mr. Burdge has handled civil, criminal, and administrative cases, focused on Consumer Protection Law at all trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts.
He was first named a Super Lawyer in 2005 and repeatedly named to that status thereafter. Mr. Burdge authored and co authored numerous chapters of books and articles on the Law and Attorney Fee issues published by the ABA, Thomson Reuters - West Publishing, the National Consumer Law Center, and several state and local bar associations, and is a frequent speaker on practice, trials, and attorney fee issues before national, state, and local bar associations and professional conferences.
Since 1999 Mr Burdge has conducted a national survey on attorney fees and law office practices in the area of Consumer Law and edited and published the results in a series titled the United States Consumer Law Attorney Fee Survey Report, reporting on the law office economics of United States attorneys who handle legal matters for and involving consumers. His published reports have been used by Courts in hundreds of court cases across the U.S. and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Departments of Justice and the Labor Department and the American Arbitration Association, and can be downloaded for free from the survey website Attorney Fee Study dot com.
For over two decades Mr. Burdge has provided expert witness analyses and testimony on Attorney Fee and Consumer Law issues in numerous state and federal courts nationwide.