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- John W. Burke III
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- Practice Areas
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Endangered Species Act
- Land Use Law
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- Experience
- Mr. Burke has over 25 years of
experience as a negotiator and attorney with the Department of Interior’s
Solicitor’s Office. He has distinguished himself as an outstanding
facilitator of partnering agreements between business and government with a
track record of success in California. He has managed the partnering process
for scores of large-scale partnering agreements. He has facilitated and
negotiated environmental and land use projects among members of congress,
federal departments and bureaus, senior officials in the California governor’s
U.S. office and departments and senior-level business and industry leaders.
As a facilitator of partnering agreements, he has orchestrated positive
outcomes on a voluntary basis in California and the rest of the U.S. with
stakeholders. In recognition of his expertise in this area, he has served on
blue ribbon panels. For example, he was appointed by the Governor of
California to the Sierra Summit Task Force. The Task Force’s mission was
to open a dialogue between senior government officials and business and
industry leaders in order to achieve a healthy, sustainable environment in
Sierra Nevada while also supporting the goals of the participating
representatives of the recreational, timber, and mining industries, as well
as water purveyors and manufacturing. In all these activities, he has
produced positive outcomes in a negotiating context.
Mr. Burke has extensive experience supervising legal
projects. He was appointed by the Secretary of Interior as a Regional
Solicitor for the Pacific Southwest Region where he coordinated and oversaw
the legal activities of the Department of Interior for California, Nevada,
Arizona, Hawaii and the Trust Territories. Mr. Burke has drafted legislation
adopted by Congress providing positive outcomes for stakeholders in the
environment. He was a litigator who negotiated effective resolutions for
conflicts on behalf of the Department of the Interior for fifteen years. In
this capacity, he has appeared in court and negotiated small disputes to those
involving hundreds of millions of dollars affecting major segments of natural
resources in the Pacific Northwest and California. Mr. Burke is also a former
naval officer who was decorated for his service in Vietnam.
- Affliliations
- Member of the State of California and District of
Columbia Bars
- Member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar
- Member of the Court of Appeals for the 9th
Circuit and the District of Columbia Bars
- Education
1973 J.D., George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
1966 A.B., Princeton
University, Princeton, N.J.