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