Robert Burns

Practice Areas

Bob Burns is a shareholder in the firm’s Boise office and leads the firm’s real estate practice in Idaho. His practice includes acquisitions and sales, commercial real estate lending, development, leasing, and conflicts over entitlement issues and commercial and residential property interests, including challenging property taxes and prosecuting and defending mechanic liens.

Mr. Burns has also represented business clients in a wide range of general business activities ranging from the formation of business entities to litigating their dissolution – and most everything in between.

Mr. Burns was selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America as "Lawyer of the Year" in 2016 in Boise for Real Estate, and in 2022 in Boise for Litigation - Real Estate.

Before returning to the practice of law in the mid-90s, Mr. Burns was the president of the Los Angeles/Ventura Division of The Baldwin Company, then one of the largest home builders in California. As the general manager of one of the three operating divisions of this Southern California real estate company, Mr. Burns was responsible for the acquisition and development of five master-planned communities comprising approximately 6,500 residential units, together with ancillary commercial uses. Mr. Burns also developed several commercial projects in California and Idaho before joining The Baldwin Company.

Mr. Burns began practicing law in Houston, Texas, with Fulbright & Jaworski, an international law firm, in 1982. Prior to attending law school, he practiced as a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in its Salt Lake City office.