Jesse

Bair

Jesse Bair is a founding partner at Burns Bair LLP.  Currently, Jesse devotes the majority of his practice to working with sexual-abuse survivors and other tort claimants and their attorneys on the most significant insurance issues of the day, having been retained as special insurance counsel by creditors’ committees in twelve of the largest religious-affiliated bankruptcies in the country: the Diocese of Rochester, New York; the Diocese of Syracuse, New York; the Diocese of Albany, New York; the Diocese of Buffalo, New York; the Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York; the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York; the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland; the Franciscan Friars of California, Inc.; the Bishop of Oakland, California; the Bishop of Santa Rosa, California; the Bishop of Sacramento, California; and the Archbishop of San Francisco, California. Jesse also represents the post-confirmation settlement trust pursuing insurance recoveries from non-settling insurers in connection with the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota bankruptcy.

Before founding Burns Bair LLP, Jesse was Counsel in the insurance recovery practice at one of the nation’s largest law firms. In that role, Jesse represented a wide range of companies across multiple industries, as well as their directors and officers, in complex insurance disputes. Jesse handled cases at all stages of litigation, from pre-suit mediation, through trial, and on appeal. He successfully litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance proceeds for clients.

Jesse earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he graduated first in his class, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as a Managing Editor on the Wisconsin Law Review. Jesse graduated summa cum laude from St. Norbert College.