John P. "Jack" Burton - Lawyer in Santa Fe, NM

John P. Burton 505.954.3906 jburton@rodey.com

Education Harvard Law School (L.L.B., 1968) Louisiana Tech University (B.S., magna cum laude, accounting major, 1965)

Professional Experience Jack Burton is a director in the Santa Fe office. He has a state-wide, multi-disciplined, commercial practice involving transactions, alternative dispute resolution and litigation in federal and state courts, and legislative representation. He handles complex, commercial disputes of most kinds, including litigation, arbitration, mediation and settlement facilitation. Mr. Burton also handles complex transactions involving business and property matters including mergers, acquisitions, leasing and financing. He works with industrial, office, commercial, hotel, residential, gaming and ranch properties and businesses. He deals with all aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code and has participated in its revision. Mr. Burton handles an active legislative practice and has helped to obtain the enactment of more than 40 uniform law bills as a public service to the people of New Mexico. Mr. Burton represents international, national and local clients, and works with and against lawyers located all over the country. He resides in Santa Fe, the state capital, which is 60 miles from Albuquerque. Professional Memberships and Activities Selected as Santa Fe Mediation Lawyer of the Year -2013 by Best Lawyers in America Selected as Santa Fe Real Estate Lawyer of the Year-2011 by Best Lawyers in America Selected to the Lawdragon Top 3000, an elite list of the nations top 3000 attorneys, in 2010 by Lawdragon Magazine. Selected as Business Lawyer of the Year in 2004, by the New Mexico State Bar Association Business Law Section Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in eleven categories: Administrative/Regulatory Law, Arbitration, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Gaming Law, Government Relations Practice, Mediation, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Native American Law, and Real Estate Law, all based on peer review Listed in Southwest Super Lawyers, based on peer review Fellow, American Bar Foundation Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America Listed in Whos Who in America New Mexico State Bar Association? Board of Bar Commissioners Former Chair, New Mexico State Bar Association Commercial Litigation Section Vice Chair and Principal Drafter, Ad Hoc Committee, New Mexico State Bar Association Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section, Committee to Amend Deed of Trust Act Member, New Mexico State Bar Association Commission on Professionalism Member of these National Panels of American Arbitration Association: Large Complex Case Panel of Arbitrators Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, both based on peer review Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (international), based on peer review Member, First Judicial District Court Settlement Facilitation Program, and Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement Facilitation Panel, both based on peer review Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, based on peer review Member, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, based on peer review Commissioner, Uniform Law Commission Member, Observer, Former Chair or Former Member of These Committees of Uniform Law Commission: Executive Committee Legislative Council To Revise Uniform Commercial Code Articles 2, 2A, 5 and 9 To Review Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 To Draft Uniform Prudent Management of [Charitable] Institutional Funds Act To Draft Uniform Power of Attorney Act To Draft Uniform Act on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Process and Procedure To Draft Uniform Act on Appointment and Powers of Real Estate Receivers Liaison with American Indian Tribes and Nations Member, American Law Institute, based on peer review Member Consultative Groups of These American law Institute Projects: Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations Restatement, Third, U.S. Law of U.S. Intnl Commercial Arbitration Author: Guaranties in New Mexico, in Guaranties: A State-by-State Guide (American Bar Association forthcoming) New Mexico Commercial Lending Law, in Commercial Lending Law: A State-by-State Guide (American Bar Association 2008), Certificate of Title Law: State Certificate of Title Laws? New Mexico (American Bar Association 2009). Co-author: Effective Boundary Dispute Resolution in New Mexico (National Business Institute 2004 Seminar speaker on Easements, Boundaries, Real Estate Finance, Nonprofits, Title Insurance, Civil Litigation, Civil RICO, Article 9 of the UCC and Ethics