Kelly Burchell has been practicing law since 2004. With Burchell Law, Kelly regularly appears before state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as before state and federal administrative agencies and oversight boards on behalf of clients. Kelly has represented numerous government contractors in payment disputes and false claims actions. Working with small businesses, Kelly has assisted individuals in forming corporations-both LLCs and INCs and structured various clients’ joint ventures to ensure proper management and tax structure. Kelly has also defended small businesses in EEO and wage actions. Prior to establishing Burchell Law PLLC, Kelly was a partner with Burchell & Hughes PLLC and Burchell, Goldblatt & MacKay PLLC. Kelly also served as General Counsel for numerous Fraternal Order of Police Labor Committees in the District of Columbia area including the United States Capitol Police, the National Institutes of Health Division of Police, the United States Park Police, the Library of Congress Police, and the Government Printing Office Police. While representing police unions, Kelly negotiated multiple collective bargaining agreements, arbitrated overtime claims on behalf of the collective bargaining unit and represented officers in adverse action proceedings. Kelly was also directly involved in handling agency policy negotiations, unfair labor practice claims, as well as collective bargaining unit certification issues. Kelly graduated from Howard University School of Law in 2004 and earned a LLM in Tax Law from Villanova University School of Law. While attending Howard, he interned with District of Columbia Superior Court Judges Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. and the Honorable Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. While interning with Judge Burnett, Kelly researched and drafted an advisory memorandum discussing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and warrantless searches in the post-9/11 era. Kelly grew up on a farm in Nebraska. He spends his Saturdays cheering for Nebraska football (Go Big Red!).

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Michael Burg J.D. is one of America’s leading trial lawyers, a best-selling author, legal expert and founding shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine. A legal champion for victims of corporate and individual malfeasance, negligence, overreach and abuse, Burg began his career fighting for the underdog and has gone on to successfully litigate some of the country’s most high-profile cases of the past four decades. Under Burg’s leadership, Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine has expanded to more than 60 attorneys across seven cities. A national leader in mass tort and class action litigation, the firm has won more than $1 billion in verdicts, judgments, and settlements on behalf of its clients. During his 43-year career, Burg has been a vigilant consumer watchdog, representing thousands of individuals and helping their families overcome catastrophic injuries and immense hardship. He has taken on big pharma in multiple, dangerous drug mass tort cases including Fen-Phen, Yaz/Yasmin, Ortho Evra, and Pradaxa. Burg stood up to corporate greed fighting against UBS for knowingly selling risky mortgages to investors, creating the blueprint for many similar actions by states, municipalities, government regulators and other aggrieved investors. More recently, Burg filed a sweeping action against 28 California wineries to stop them from selling toxic wine contaminated with arsenic and he is representing the victims of a fraudulent scheme to illegally sell human body parts of their loved one’s bodies that were supposed to be donated for scientific and medical education and research.

CRAIG A. BURGESS is a senior trial attorney and a founding partner of Arciero McMillan & Burgess, PC. He has successfully represented a variety of medical and dental professionals–including doctors, hospitals, large medical groups, dentists, podiatrists and nurses—against claims in both state and federal court. In addition to defending local physicians and hospitals, Craig’s work as a litigation attorney also includes cases of license suspension, license removal, probationary periods and letters of reprimand. Craig attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, graduating with honors in 1998. He earned his law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 2002 focusing on Healthcare Law and Medical Jurisprudence. While in law school Craig clerked for the United States Navy, Naval-Air Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, as well as for the 13th Judicial Circuit, Tampa, Florida. In 2002, Craig started his career with an Orlando, Florida based firm where he represented both large construction companies and small family owned citrus farms against liability, employment, and compensation claims. In 2007, Craig returned to the Hudson Valley, where he grew up, to begin his career as a litigation attorney. In 2019, he co-founded Arciero McMillan & Burgess, PC. Craig is a member of the New York State Bar Association, New York Medical Defense Bar Association, and the Florida Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in all New York State Courts, as well as the Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York. He is also admitted in all Florida State Courts, as well as the Federal District Court of the Middle District of Florida. Craig has been named to Super Lawyers and given an AV rating, the highest rating, by Martindale Hubbell. Craig has lectured physicians and health professionals and hospital staff on electronic medical records (EMR) documentation. Craig currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Dutchess County Bar Association and is a past board member of the DCSPCA.