Professional Resume

1. KRISTEN L. BURGE
425-681-9587 | Kristen.L.Burge@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kristenburge
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Bar Admissions: Louisiana, Florida & Washington State
Beahm & Green New Orleans, LA | Sept. 2014 - Present
Attorney
• Serve as second chair counsel, taking direct and cross examinations of select witnesses;
• Devise and argue summary judgment motions; secured dismissals in over ten cases;
• Lead attorney in depositions of plaintiffs, treating physicians, and experts;
• Secured defense verdict in May 2016 trial; Drafted appellate brief protecting client’s $2.8
million judgment; successfully mediated and negotiated settlements in numerous cases
Shuart & Associates New Orleans, LA | May 2014 – Sept. 2014
Contract Attorney
Prepared responses to e-discovery requests and confidentiality logs in complex commercial
litigation disputes.
First Impressions Legal Writing,LLC Sarasota, FL & New Orleans, LA | May 2011 – May 2014
Attorney
• Drafted appellate briefs and substantive memoranda, including prevailing brief filed with
the Alabama Supreme Court overturning summaryjudgment;
• Analyzed multi-party business transactions, business partnership and shareholder disputes,
and jurisdictional challenges for both individual and corporate clients
• Provided trademark services, performed clearance searches, and responded to USPTO actions
Legal Aid of Manasota Sarasota, FL | July 2012 – Aug. 2013
Attorney
Provided civil legal services in family law, consumer finance, and landlord/tenant matters and
prepared pleadings for pro se clients.
EDUCATION
University of Washington Schoolof Law Seattle, WA | 2010 - 11
LL.M., Intellectual Property Law & Policy, GPA: 3.84
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law Birmingham, AL | 2007 - 10
J.D., magna cum laude,
Copy Editor of Law Review & Scholar of Merit Recipient for highest grade in ten courses
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | 2001 - 05
B.S., Neuroscience

2. KRISTEN L. BURGE
425-681-9587 | Kristen.L.Burge@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kristenburge
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ABA Section of Litigation, Editor for Litigation News, author four articles annually
LSBA Young Lawyers Division Committee, Louisiana Delegate to the American Bar Association, Term
2016 - 2018; Co-Chair of Law School Outreach Committee
LSBA Diversity Committee, Co-Chair of Pipeline to Diversity Subcommittee
PUBLICATIONS
New Framework for ESI Spoilation Claims, Litigation News Print Edition, Vol. 41 No. 3 (Spring 2016).
Circuit Split Creates Data Protection Uncertainty, Litigation News, November 11, 2015.
What’s in My Laptop? Achieving HIPAA Compliance in Your Legal Practice, DRI The Voice, Apr. 20,
2016.
Personalized Medicine, Genetic Exceptionalism, and the Rule of Law: An Analysis of the Prevailing
Justification for Invalidating BRCA1/2 Patents in Association of Molecular Pathology v. USPTO, 8
WASH. J. LAW, TECH. & ARTS 501 (2013).
When it Rains, it Pours: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Freedom of Choice Act and its Potential
Fall- out on Abortion Jurisprudence and Legislation, 40 CUMB. L. Rev. 181 (2009).
Constitutional Law—The Second Amendment—D.C. Statute Prohibiting the Possession of a Useable
Handgun in the Home and Restricting Handgun Possession is Unconstitutional, 39 CUMB. L. REV.
323 (2008).