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Jason W. Burge

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Practice Focus

Appellate Group Class Actions/Mass Actions/MDLs Fraudulent Transfer and Specialized Bankruptcy Litigation Governmental Securities Litigation Lender Liability Ponzi/Banking Schemes Real Estate Litigation Securities and Antitrust Tax

About

Jason Burge is the go-to attorney for victims of financial misconduct in single plaintiff, mass action, and class action cases against banks, loan servicers, stockbrokers, and investment firms. With a background in economics, Jason can distill complex financial transactions into terms that judges, arbitrators, and jurors can understand. Chambers and Partners has described him as “financially well-versed and very capable in translating difficult financial concepts into common tongue.”

“Jason is whip-smart and a formidable attorney.” —Litigation: General Commercial Client, Chambers and Partners

Jason represents individual and institutional investors and borrowers in securities fraud and lender liability cases in state court, federal court, and bankruptcy court, as well as FINRA arbitrations. He handles disputes involving allegations of statutory violations, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation, and fraud from fact investigation through trial and appellate practice. Jason is also an Appellate Practice Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

Experience

  • Represents an automobile insurer against putative state-wide class actions alleging improper adjustment of total loss claims in cases pending in state and federal court.
  • Represents Puerto Rican individual physician associations in suits against insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers for damages suffered as a result of the defendants alleged price-fixing scheme.
  • Represents shareholders of various REITs in derivative and direct litigation for damages arising from fiduciary breaches, waste, and mismanagement.
  • Represented public utilities, hospitals, in cities in FINRA arbitrations against their investment banks for fraud and breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with the issuance of auction rate securities and related interest rate swaps.
  • Tried a week-long FINRA arbitration on behalf of investors in action to recover against their investment advisors for fraud and mismanagement of investments, resulting in an award of 100% of out-of-pocket damages plus attorney’s fees.

Professional Activities & Community Involvement

  • New Orleans Bar Association, Member
  • Public Investors Advocate Bar Association: Member; Former Editor-in-Chief, PIABA Bar Journal

Recognitions

Media

  • Author, “Investors Cornered: The Risks of Securities-Backed Loans,” 30 No. 2 PIABA B. J. 225, 2023.
  • Co-author, “Investors Cornered: “You Don’t Find Out Who’s Been Swimming Naked Until the Tide Goes Out,” 30 No. 1 PIABA B. J. 89, 2023.
  • Co-author, “Crafting an Argument that Statues of Limitations Do Not Apply in Arbitration,” 20 No. 1 PIABA B. J. 31, 2015.
  • Co-author, “A Compelling Case for Streamlining Venue of Actions to Enjoin Arbitration,” 88 Tul. L. Rev. 773, 775, 2014.
  • Co-author, “Analyzing the Application of Statutes of Limitations in Arbitration,” 49 Gonz. L. Rev. 214, 2014.
  • Co-author, “Defining ‘Customer’: A Survey of Who Can Demand Finra Arbitration,” 74 La. L. Rev. 173, 2013.
  • Author, “Rethinking Fees and Taxes In Light of the New York City Health Care Security Act,” NYU Ann. Surv. Am. Law., Vol. 61:4.
  • Panelist, “Litigation Vehicles for Litigating a Complex Tort,” Louisiana State Bar Association 25th Annual Complex Litigation Symposium, Nov. 7, 2025.
  • Speaker, “Appellate Law: A 2024 Year-in-Review of the State of the U.S. Fifth Circuit,” New Orleans Bar Association Procrastinators’ Programssm CLE, Dec. 27, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Louisiana Supervisory Writ Practice: Practice Tips and Pitfalls,” New Orleans Bar Association Procrastinators’ Programssm CLE, Dec. 19, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Using State Statutes to Amplify our Client’s Damages Claim and Target Additional Defendants,” PIABA Annual Meeting, Sept. 26, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Testing 1-2-3: Using Focus Groups, Mock Trials, and Shadow Juries in Litigation,” Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants 2024 Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services Conference, Aug. 19, 2024.
  • Panelist, “Avoiding Hallucinations and Fabrications: Lessons from Mata v. Avianca,” Loyola Law Review Symposium, March 15, 2024.
  • Panelist, “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers,” PIABA 32nd Annual Meeting and Securities Law, Oct. 25, 2023.

Credentials

  • J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, 2006
    • Note Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law
    • Order of the Coif
  • B.M. in Music Composition, summa cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans, 2003
  • B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from The Ohio State University, 2000
  • Clerk to the Honorable Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit, 2006-2007
  • Louisiana
  • Texas
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Notable Rankings

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