Mark E. Burton, Jr.
Senior Attorney, Scranton Law FirmMark Burton has spent nearly three decades doing one thing: taking on the biggest companies in the country on behalf of people who got hurt.
About Mark
Mark Burton has spent nearly three decades doing one thing: taking on the biggest companies in the country on behalf of people who got hurt. Drug makers, medical device manufacturers, agrochemical giants. If a product injured someone and the company would rather not talk about it, that's usually where Mark comes in. He now brings that experience to the Scranton Law Firm as a senior attorney, litigating and supervising complex injury cases in state courts across California.
Notable Cases
His track record reads like a highlight reel of modern product liability. He was on the trial team in Johnson v. Monsanto, the first jury verdict ever to link Roundup to cancer, a $289.2 million win that made headlines worldwide and was later upheld on appeal. He helped secure a $700 million settlement for people injured by the antipsychotic Zyprexa, represented the whistleblower in a related $1.4 billion civil and criminal settlement with Eli Lilly, and was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Mexico to recover the state's own Zyprexa costs. Add a $400 million settlement over Guidant defibrillators, a string of first-of-their-kind cases against Medtronic, Bristol-Myers Squibb and GSK, and a jury verdict for misclassified workers, and you start to get the picture.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case depends on its own facts.
Background & Experience
The rest of the profession has noticed. Mark has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer every year since 2009, was part of the National Trial Lawyers' Trial Team of the Year in 2018, and carries a perfect 10.0 Avvo rating. He publishes on mass torts and employment law, is a regular speaker at national litigation conferences, serves as a fee arbitrator for the California State Bar, and spent a decade on the Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University, where he earned his law degree.
Legal Background
- Senior Attorney, Scranton Law Firm
- J.D., Golden Gate University
- Special Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico
- State Bar #178400
- Fee arbitrator, California State Bar
Awards & Memberships
- Northern California Super Lawyer every year since 2009
- National Trial Lawyers' Trial Team of the Year in 2018
- 10.0 Avvo rating
- Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University
Outside the Office
When he isn't in a courtroom, Mark is a volunteer firefighter with the Nicasio Volunteer Fire Department, responding to fire and medical emergencies in his community, and has served on the Nicasio School District Board of Trustees since 2018. Turns out the instinct to show up when things go wrong isn't something he leaves at the office.
Volunteer Firefighter
Nicasio Volunteer Fire Department
School Board Trustee
Nicasio School District Board of Trustees
Golden Gate University Trustee
Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University
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