Robert S. Burk is a founding shareholder in the firm of Burk & Landrum, P.A. and AMERICORD^®, Inc., its conflict management consulting affiliate.  He has over 40 years of personnel and labor relations experience and had his first experience in mediation as an advocate in 1960. He has served as a neutral in mediations involving business, construction and employment disputes and also provides arbitration and conflict management consulting services. He is also a “qualified neutral” under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice and is a member of the International Academy of Mediators.

Mr. Burk was Vice-Chair and then Chair of the Board of Trustees of William Mitchell College of Law from 1992-96 and has served on the Board since 1987.  He is the recipient of the Honorable Ronald E. Hachey Outstanding Alumnus Award, October 1993.  In May 2000 he was selected from among William Mitchell College of Law alumni/ae who graduated in the last one hundred years as one of the “100 who made a difference.”  He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and in 1998 was selected to become a Life Member of The National Registry of Who’s Who.  Mr. Burk was selected by his peers as one of Minnesota’s “Leading Attorneys” in the field of labor law and has been selected annually by a Law & Politics survey of attorneys as one of Minnesota’s “Super Lawyers.”

Mr. Burk was general counsel and director of industrial relations for a major Minnesota corporation for 15 years, and is currently employment counsel to companies, both in Minnesota and nationally.  Prior to joining Michael Landrum to found Burk & Landrum, P.A. in 2001, Mr. Burk was a senior attorney and shareholder with Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., for 18 years where he also served for 5 years as President and CEO and was a founding shareholder in Burk & Seaton, P.A. for six years.

He was appointed by the Governor to the Wage Advisory Board for Clerical Occupations, was a member of the American Society of Personnel Administration, served as Secretary-Treasurer of St. Paul Personnel Directors Association, District 15 representative on the Metropolitan Council’s Section 208 Waste Water Management Advisory Committee, Chairman of the Industry Task Force on Application of the State’s Critical Areas Act to the Mississippi River Corridor and is a member of the labor section of the Minnesota Bar Association and the American Bar Association.