User:W. GLENN BURNS

W. GLENN BURNS'' -- ATTORNEY -- Glenn Burns is a practicing attorney in the Greater New Orleans Louisiana area for over forty years with a diverse background as a trial lawyer. A former Assistant United States Attorney and Assistant Attorney General for the State of Louisiana assigned to the Organized Crime Unit, he spent eight years as a prosecutor of political corruption, economic crime and civil rights violations. He was a prosecutor in cases against judges, policemen and bank presidents. The most notable of his cases was the " Algiers Seven ", the prosecution of seven New Orleans policemen for violation of witness' civil rights following the tragic shooting of a New Orleans policeman. After several years as a member of the firm Monroe & Lemann of New Orleans representing the major public utilities in Louisiana, he rejoined his prosecutor colleagues former United States Attorney John Volz and former Chief of the Criminal Division Rick Simmons in a successful trial practice including the defense of entities before state and federal courts with the firm Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale LLC. After Volz's retirement, Simmons and Burns teamed in the defense of Jefferson Parish Council President Bob Evans and Louisiana State Senate President Michael O'Keefe. He has assisted Simmons in representing Physician Dr. Anna Pou, arrested in an investigation of deaths at Memorial Hospital following Hurricane Katrina and Michael Leman, owner of Urgent Care Clinics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio. '''Glenn Burns was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on January 13, 1949. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1971 and the LSU Law Center in 1973. He is married to Marianne E. Burns and has three children, Erin, Brandon and Connor. In 2013 he joined Kirk Willis founder of The Willis Law Group, a regional defense firm with headquarters in Dallas, Texas and offices in Houston and San Antonio, Texas as well as Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and New Orleans, Louisiana where he is the Resident Partner at 1100 Poydras Street, Suite 2602, New Orleans, LA 70163. TheWillisLawGroup.com. He is Peer Rated AV by Martindale Hubbell.