Michael E. Burton
Senior Vice President, Washington, DC
mburton@cornerstone.com
202.912.8912
Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A.,
Michigan State University
Michael Burton heads the Washington, D.C., office and the firm's energy practice. He has more than twenty years of experience in the economic and financial analysis of liability and damage issues arising in business litigation. He has expertise in antitrust, intellectual property rights, business valuation, and contract disputes (particularly in the energy industries). In these areas, Dr. Burton has provided litigation support, including the statistical analysis of data, the estimation of damages, and the preparation of expert testimony. His antitrust work has included the economic analysis of competition in numerous industries, including healthcare, retail, semiconductors, publishing, energy, transportation, and coal. He also has provided expert testimony in business valuation.
Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Burton was a senior vice president of PHB Hagler Bailly (formerly Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett), where he specialized in energy litigation and consulted on antitrust cases and intellectual property disputes. Back to Senior Staff list