High-Profile Conspiracy Cases: It was JIM BURDICK who successfully represented the chief suspect in the tragic kidnapping and murder of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa.  Though his client was innocent, public and media hysteria pushed federal investigators to find a scapegoat.  An otherwise deadly series of coincidences and misunderstandings propelled very aggressive F.B.I. investigators who, because of the intense media scrutiny and enormous public pressure, were intent on bringing charges against his client for a murder he didn't commit.  Only Jim's steadfast and smart representation made the government back off and search for the real culprits.

Highest Profile Murder: In the Jenny Jones Murder Trial, only Jim's steady hand and relentless pursuit of the truth saved his client from a First Degree Murder conviction and a sentence of life imprisonment with no hope of parole.  Despite a taped confession to 911 operators and to police, Jim was able to convince the jury to return a verdict of the far lesser offense of Second Degree, resulting in a sentence that will set his client free while he is still a young man.

Drugs and Money Laundering: After a hard-fought high-profile drug conspiracy trial in Kansas, while the jury convicted Jim Burdick's client, Burdick's relentless forward charge in behalf of his client resulted in a reversal and dismissal of the charges by the United States Court of Appeals which ruled that the trial judge should have granted Jim's motion to dismiss.

I.R.S. Fraud Investigations: A major Michigan business was being vigorously investigated for tax fraud, and Jim Burdick represented one of the employees.  Even though the attorney representing senior corporate officers antagonized all the government officials, it was Jim who was able to bring calm to the situation, and to convince both the Internal Revenue Service and the government lawyers that no criminal conduct had occurred, saving the company from likely collapse from just the media scrutiny even a criminal charge would have brought.

Drug Conspiracies: In a highly-charged interstate drug conspiracy trial, and despite extensive photos of Jim Burdick's client in a Post Office taping together a package which was later found to contain a huge quantity of narcotics, and even though all of the other defendants pled guilty, Jim was able to win an outright acquittal for his client by proving that federal agents had lied during their testimony.

White Collar Crime:  In a three-week long trial in Detroit federal court, Jim Burdick's client faced a vigorous prosecution, a turncoat witness and thirteen separate and highly inflammatory recorded conversations in which the client all but confessed to conducting a high-interest (4% per week!) loan sharking operation, Jim was still able to win an acquittal on all nine counts, conviction of any one of which would have sent his client to federal prison for ten years or more.

Healthcare: JIM BURDICK carefully and skillfully creates individualized programs for personal rehabilitation and redemption leading to always successful petitions for reinstatement of health care provider licenses.  Burdick has achieved nearly 100% success in obtaining reinstatements, even when clients have had multiple disciplines or multiple criminal convictions.  He has successfully represented physicians, nurses, dentists and pharmacists who have developed substance abuse problems and has always either kept their licenses for them, or succeeded in winning reinstatement in every case.  Jim represents clients in Blue Cross de-participation and re-participation actions, in United States Department of Health and Human Services (Medicare-Medicaid) exclusion and reinstatement litigation, as well as the discipline and license matters.

Additional Accomplishments

• In 2010, a physician who had been convicted of trading an opiate prescription for the promise of sexual favors lost his license in 2003, but Jim Burdick got it back for him after a long administrative law hearing, convincing the Board of Medicine that he should be re-licensed.
  
• In 2010, Jim Burdick was able to obtain reinstatement of a psychologist's license, after she had been suspended for 18 months, and despite the fact that during her suspension, two separate allegations of practicing without a license had been filed. Mr. Burdick was able to convince the Attorney General's office and the Psychology Board that she should still have her license reinstated, and it was.
  
• Also in 2010, Jim Burdick was able to get a pharmacist's license reinstated, despite allegations that he had been practicing pharmacy while without a license. The pharmacist had lost his license years before, and failed (with another attorney) to win reinstatement before he came to Jim Burdick, and became victorious.
  
• In 2010, a registered nurse was alleged to have been diverting opiates from the hospital where he worked, and his license was summarily suspended. Jim Burdick got him into a treatment program and was able to get the summary suspension of his license lifted, with an agreement that the Nursing Board would not suspend it so long as he remained successful in his treatment program.
  
• In 2009, a client of Mr. Burdick's was indicted for cocaine distribution conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy and all of his property accumulated over a lifetime was seized by the government. But in 2010 Mr. Burdick was able to achieve an agreement with the federal government by which most of the client's real estate, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were to be returned. Mr. Burdick also obtained an agreement with the government for dismissal of all of the criminal charges. Instead, the government agreed with Mr. Burdick to impose a one-year "diversion" - with no criminal conviction, no "probation" or fine, and no criminal record at all.
  
• In another matter, yet another nurse was alleged to have been diverting drugs and was fired from the hospital where he worked and reported to the State. Instead of having a license suspension action at all, Mr. Burdick was able to get this nurse into a State authorized recovery program which monitors his continuing work as a nurse.
  
• A social worker was charged with Medicare fraud, accused of stealing $700,000 from the Medicare Trust. Through Jim Burdick's expertise and hard work, he was able to get the three-year sentence reduced to only six-months.
  
• In 2010, a physician was wrongfully accused of making sexual advances to a patient. Because of Mr. Burdick's efforts and resources, the prosecutor agreed not to bring any criminal charges, and Mr. Burdick was able to convince the State not to being licensing discipline action. This physician is still working, because of Jim Burdick's expertise and diligence.
  
• In 2010, Mr. Burdick was also able to convince the United States Government not to prosecute a woman whose conduct was deeply enmeshed within a major criminal conspiracy.
  
• In 2010, an otherwise law-abiding building contractor who had become enmeshed in someone else's mortgage fraud scheme - defrauding banks of millions - but Jim Burdick kept him from having any criminal charges brought against him.
  
• In 2010, Mr. Burdick was able to save another client from receiving any prison sentence at all, despite the client's admission of responsibility in a Medicare kickback scheme involving a million dollars of money improperly charged to Medicare. This client, because of Jim Burdick's expertise and relentlessness, was able to avoid the fate of some others in the case who were sentenced to Federal prison.
 
• A pharmacist confessed to stealing $10,000 in drugs, but Jim Burdick got the criminal charges of embezzlement dismissed and avoided any license sanctions by proving the confession was false and had been coerced.
  
• An innocent doctor accused of ignoring a post-operative patient who died in recovery. . . . Jim Burdick saved him from losing his license.
  
• Another doctor was accused (falsely) of molesting patients . . . Jim Burdick's efforts kept him from even being charged with a crime, or with any ethical violation.
  
• A nurse was accused of stealing a medical device . . . Jim Burdick saved her license with only a reprimand.
  
• A California executive won an acquittal on federal drug conspiracy charges because she hired Jim Burdick to defend her at trial.
  
• A pharmacist accused of "losing" 9,000 opiates . . . Jim Burdick saved his pharmacy license.
  
• An athletic coach was falsely accused of sexual conduct, but Jim Burdick proved he was innocent, and got the charges dismissed.
  
• A police officer was found Not Guilty in federal court on charges of corruption, because Jim Burdick defended him at trial.
  
• A nurse failed to properly record a TB test and was fired from her hospital . . . Jim Burdick saved her license with only a minor reprimand.
  
• A man indicted for money laundering won a dismissal of charges in a Kansas federal court on appeal, because of Jim Burdick's trial skills.
  
• A nurse accused of altering a medical record kept her license with no discipline because of Jim Burdick's expertise and aggressive pursuit of justice.
  
• A man charged with counterfeiting avoided federal criminal charges because of Jim Burdick's hard work.
  
• Despite three drunk driving convictions, the license of another pharmacist falsely accused of stealing drugs, was saved by Jim Burdick who got the criminal charges dismissed.
  
• A dentist dispensing narcotics from his office without a license . . . kept his dental license because he had Jim Burdick in his corner.
  
• A defendant's date rape charges were dismissed, only because of Jim Burdick's diligence in proving the truth.
  
• An NBA star involved in an infamous brawl at a basketball game was saved from a jail sentence by Jim Burdick's diligence.

Surgeons, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, physician assistants, dentists, chiropractors, family medicine docs . . . all have had their licenses saved, or reinstated, for them by Jim Burdick.