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About Coburn Burroughs
Coburn Burroughs is a native of South Louisiana, where he was born and raised in Houma. Following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he and his family relocated to the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, where he finished the remainder of his secondary education and met his future wife, Caroline. Burroughs went on to attend the University of North Carolina, Charlotte where he received his B.A. in Political Science. Shortly thereafter, he returned to his beloved home state of Louisiana where he attended Loyola University - New Orleans, College of Law. During his final year of law school, Burroughs clerked at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal of Louisiana with the Hon. Judge Fredericka H. Wicker.
Burroughs also spent his summers during his law school career in Asheville working in the Office of the Hon. Judge, Alan Z. Thornburg at the Buncombe County Superior Court in Asheville, as well as interning for Pisgah Legal Services, a non-profit law firm that provides free civil legal aid to indigent clients, where he was awarded the ‘Lacoltrane Award’ for Exceptional Client Service. Burroughs was hired by Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys directly out of law school. He and his wife now reside in Shreveport, LA where his wife attends medical school at LSU Health Shreveport. Burroughs represents clients for injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, and various other negligence matters.
Burroughs also represents families in wrongful death matters. Burroughs uses his background as a former collegiate wrestler to aggressively advocate for the rights of his injured clients and their families. Burroughs is an active member of the Shreveport community. He regularly volunteers at the Shreveport Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project’s Ask-A-Lawyer event, which is held on the third Monday of each month at the Shreveport Bar Association.
Burroughs also serves on the advisory board for the Acid Maltase Deficiency Association (AMDA), volunteering his time to advocate for the funding of research and treatment advancements for Pompe Disease, a glycogen storage disorder his younger sister, Morgan, was diagnosed with in 2000. Burroughs enjoys being able to give back to these organizations and utilize his knowledge to help others in any way he can. He is also proud to serve as an assistant wrestling coach at C.E. Byrd High School, where he has the opportunity to train and be a role model to young athletes in a sport he holds very dearly to his heart.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Gordon McKernan Injury Attorneys
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Sherri Tramble, 36, was a St. Landry Parish paramedic riding unrestrained in the back of an ambulance, starting an IV on a patient en route to hospital, when a pickup turned across the ambulance's path without yielding. She has multiple skull fractures, a C-7 fracture and a permanent traumatic brain injury, and has since been interdicted.
Jerrod Snearl, 22, was riding in the middle of the front seat of his employer's empty dump truck on the way to a tree-clearing job when the driver swerved on the I-12 overpass at Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge, the brakes locked, and the truck rode up over the bridge rail and fell about 30 feet onto the bank of Ward's Creek, where it caught fire. The driver burned to death. Snearl, trapped with a broken pelvis, was burned over 51 percent of his body and lost both legs, his penis, a testicle and his spleen. An Iberville Parish jury found the state's bridge rail an unreasonable risk of harm and awarded him $9,352,826.67, which the First Circuit affirmed in 2001 while raising the driver's fault and reallocating it to the state.
On May 10, 1993, three high school students were coming home from school on Sullivan Road in East Baton Rouge Parish when the driver lost control in the Sparkle Drive curve on wet pavement, crossed the centerline and hit a pickup. The driver and one passenger died. The other passenger, 16-year-old Jason Adams, suffered a torn heart valve requiring open-heart surgery, permanent frontal lobe brain damage, a compound leg fracture, a crushed ankle and a fractured pelvis. A jury cleared the Parish, but the trial judge granted judgment notwithstanding the verdict because the Parish had skid tests and citizen complaints showing the road was dangerously slick and had not fixed it. The First Circuit affirmed liability, put 20 percent on the driver, and left the Adams family with $1,622,757.
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