Attorney Profiles

Burt is an expert in civil trial work, including personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice and multiple party lawsuits. His skill as a pilot and his experience as an intelligence officer and paratrooper for the 18th Airborne Corps have given him special insight into the area of aircraft litigation and he is an acknowledged leader in that field. Burt is also very well known for his expertise as a contract negotiator and, indeed, personal mentor, for professional athletes. He, in fact, was instrumental in establishing Tucson as a spring training center for Major League Baseball.

A graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law, Burt remains active in the community. He is involved with the Tucson Conquistadores, the UA Foundation, the Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of Tucson and was a founding member of the Copper Bowl Foundation. He has been voted Man of the Year and Father of the Year, is a member of the Tucson High School and Pima County Halls of Fame and has been named to Best Lawyers in America.

Burt and his wife, Nancy, have four children.

Areas of Practice

• Sports
• Aviation Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Certification/Specialties

• Injury/Wrongful Death, State Bar of Arizona

Bar Admissions

• Arizona, 1962

Education

• University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, 1962
  LL.B.
  
  
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1957
  B.S.
  Honors: Who's Who is American Colleges & Universities
  Major: Business Administration
  
  

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Trial Practice: Lessons from the Masters, Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 2004 - 2005
• Arizona's New Year in Evidence Seminar, CLE West, 2003 - 2004

Honors and Awards

• Best Lawyers in America
• Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities
• Sterling Member of Who's Who - Executive Division
• Phi Delta Phi, Vice President, 1960 - 1961
• Boss of the Year, Tucson Legal Secretaries Association
• Pima County Sports Hall of Fame, 1996
• Man of the Year, Tucson Chamber of Commerce, 1996
• Father of the Year, 1998
• Tucson High School Hall of Fame, 1998
• University of Arizona Trial Court Dedication, 1999
• Voted one of the 100 Tucson Sports Figures of the Century, 2000

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Association for Justice
  Member
  
  
• Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 1980
  President
  
  
• Arizona Trial Lawyers Association
  Member
  
  
• American Board of Trial Advocates, 1985
  President
  
  
• American Board of Trial Advocates
  Member
  
  
• Western Trial Lawyers Association, 1996 - Present
  Member
  
  
• National Football League Players Association, 1992 - Present
  Regis. Agent
  
  
• Sports Lawyers Association, 1992 - Present
  Member
  
  
• Sigma Chi Hall of Fame, 2005 - Present
  
  
• Burt Kinerk & Associates, Inc. (Sports Management), 1971 - Present
  President
  
  
• Kinerk & Associates, PC, 1994 - Present
  Shareholder
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Robertson, Childers, Burke & Drachman, Associate, 1962 - 1965
• Robertson, Childers, Burke & Drachman, Partner, 1965 - 1968
• Robertson & Fickett, Partner, 1968 - 1971
• Robertson, Molloy, Fickett & Jones, Partner, 1971 - 1975
• Barber, Haralson, Kinerk & Morey, PC, Partner, 1975 - 1978
• Haralson, Kinerk & Morey, PC, Shareholder, 1978 - 1994
• Kinerk, Beal, Schmidt & Dyer, Partner, 1997 - 2005

Languages

• English

Fraternities/Sororities

• Sigma Chi

Birth Information

• March 25, 1935, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America