Guy Burns Bio

Guy Burns has over 40 years of trial experience with over 100 trials in State and Federal Courts, as well as over 50 trials conducted before arbitration panels. He primarily represents plaintiffs in complex disputes involving securities, financial malpractice, business, commercial and consumer fraud litigation including class actions, generally on a contingency fee basis. He also represents defendants in selected large, complex commercial disputes. He has successfully represented plaintiffs in numerous disputes against brokerage firms, investment advisers, insurance companies, law firms, accounting firms and other corporate and financial institutions. Guy has represented clients who have record-setting awards and settlements totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Guy is the co-founder of Crypto Lawyers, which is dedicated to the recovery of losses suffered by crypto currency investors in accounts held at Coinbase and other crypto exchanges. For more information go to CryptoLawyers.org Guy has a long history of representing plaintiffs on a pro bono basis in numerous public interest cases in both State and Federal Courts. These cases have arisen out of discrimination based upon race, gender and sexual orientation. He has also represented plaintiffs in litigating constitutional claims relating to education, public housing, and global warming and excess greenhouse gas emissions. For over 20 years Guy has been listed as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for commercial and financial litigation, and he has regularly been named to the lists of “Florida’s Legal Elite”, “Bet the Company Trial Lawyers” and “Super Lawyers”. He also has been named as “Lawyer of the Year” eight times in categories related to business, securities and financial services litigation.