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Music, Copyright, and the Courtroom: Bernie Burk’s Work on the Blurred Lines Case
Most people know the Blurred Lines case as a music story. Bernie Burk, law professor, knows it as a legal one, and he played a part in it. When the heirs of Marvin Gaye sued Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, and others, claiming that the 2013 hit Blurred Lines infringed Gaye’s 1976 song Got to Give…
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Bernie Burk, Law Professor, on the Ethics Questions Every Lawyer Faces
Every lawyer runs into ethics questions. Most are not dramatic. They are the quiet, everyday choices about how to handle a client, a fee, a conflict, or a phone call to the other side. Bernie Burk, law professor and professional responsibility author, has spent his career helping lawyers think through exactly these moments, and his…
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From Litigator to Law Professor: The Practice Behind Bernie Burk’s Classroom
Not every law professor has tried a case. Bernie Burk has. Before he became a law professor, he spent years in active practice as a litigator and counselor, and that experience shapes how he teaches today. Students who learn from him are learning from someone who has done the work, not only studied it. His…
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Inside the New Normal: How Bernie Burk Studies the Modern Legal Job Market
Bernie Burk, law professor, is known for ethics, but he has also done careful research on a question that affects every law student: what happens after graduation? His scholarship on the entry-level job market for new lawyers has become a reference point for people trying to understand how the profession changed after the financial crisis…
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Bernie Burk, Law Professor: Teaching the Next Generation of Lawyers
Ask Bernie Burk, law professor, what he does, and the answer starts with the classroom. Across schools including the University of North Carolina, Penn State Law, Seattle University, Memphis, Campbell University, and Arkansas at Little Rock, he has taught the courses that form the backbone of a legal education. Civil Procedure, Contracts, Remedies, Conflicts of…
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What a Career in Legal Ethics Looks Like: Bernie Burk, Law Professor and Professional Responsibility Author
Bernie Burk, law professor and author, has built his work around a question that sits at the center of the legal field: how do lawyers do the right thing when the right thing is hard to see? Professional responsibility, the body of law that governs how attorneys treat clients, courts, and one another, has been…
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What Makes a Trusted Legal Ethics Expert: A Profile of Law Professor Bernie Burk
When people search for Bernie Burk, law professor, they find a career that runs through several parts of the legal field: the courtroom, the classroom, the page, and the witness stand. Putting those pieces together gives a clear picture of a lawyer and teacher whose work centers on one thing above all, the responsible practice…