Richard Gary Burt
Sole practitioner
Richard Burt has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting contracts for business and real estate transactions; contracts for business relationships such as buy-sell agreements, shareholder agreements, and employment agreements; and forming and maintaining business entities like corporations and LLC's. His typical clients are the owners of closely held businesses, and professionals such as doctors, architects, and lawyers, and high-level executives. He also has served as an expert witness on business law matters on a number of occasions. Mr. Burt started practicing law in 1973 as a lawyer in the enforcement Division of the SEC in its home office in Washington, D.C. He then worked for a large D.C. law firm, then known as Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Hale). Mr. Burt moved to the Bay Area in 1979 and worked for a medium-sized law firm in San Jose before opening his own office in 1984. Mr. Burt is a co-author of CEB's book, Forming and Operating California Limited Liability Companies. He has also spoken at CEB seminars as well as seminars produced by the county bar and other organizations.
