About Tom Burris
Tom Burris is a Senior Associate Attorney at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers in Virginia, with nearly 35 years as a personal injury attorney in Hampton Roads. He has an extensive background in asbestos injury cases, having focused on this area for more than 20 years before returning to general personal injury work.
Burris was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia, and attended Western Branch High School.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law.
He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar.
He has been recognized in Top 50 Settlements Motor Vehicle Accidents (United States, 2021), 2023 CoVa Biz Bob Awards Best of Business, Best of 25 (Gold), Top Forty Under Forty, Virginia Business Legal Elite, and CoVaBiz Best Places to Work Awards (2023).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers
These results are credited to Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A 23-year-old grain truck driver was killed when an electrical arc jumped from an overhead high-voltage power line to the portable auger he was using at a commercial silo, and his family recovered $12 million from the power company and property owner.
A 40-year-old motorcyclist whose foot was traumatically amputated after an oncoming driver cut across his lane recovered $7 million in a settlement reached one month before trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
