Sean Burnotes has extensive experience in diverse practice areas, including transactional, alternative dispute resolution, litigation, and trials and appeals at the state and federal levels. His specialties include complex, commercial litigation, insurance defense, premises liability, negligence, professional malpractice, intellectual property, corporate governance, risk management policies and procedures, and real estate. Sean has also served as the top legal executive of a small, privately held company based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex primarily engaged in the amusement and attractions industry. Additionally, he worked in the federal judiciary as a law clerk to the Hon. Lacey A. Collier, District Judge, the Hon. James M. Hopkins, Magistrate Judge, and the Hon. Ann E. Vitunac, Magistrate Judge. This experience and training allows Sean to provide clients with robust counsel and representation on a variety of matters, ranging from fairly simple to extremely difficult, in any tribunal or proceeding.

Sean graduated with honors from Stetson University College of Law, where he served as an Articles and Symposia Editor on the Stetson Law Review. Prior to law school, Sean attended Florida State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, a minor in communications, and was a four-year letterman as a student equipment manager on the football program and member of the 1993 National Championship team.

• Automobile and Motorized Vehicles
• Intellectual Property
• Premises Liability
• Real Estate

Education

• Stetson University (J.D., cum laude, 1999)

  Honors: Articles & Symposia Editor, Stetson Law Review, 1998-1999; Honor Roll, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999; Outstanding Editor Award, Stetson Law Review, Fall 1998; Member, Stetson Lawyers Association Advisory Council, 2005-2006

• Florida State University (B.A., 1995)

  Honors: Deans List, Fall 1994, Summer 1995; Four-Year Varsity Football Letterman, Student Equipment Manager; Member, American Criminal Justice Association; Member, Florida State University National Football Championship team, 1993; Member, Florida State University Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship team, 1992 and 1993

• State of Florida 1999
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida 2002
• U. S. District Court, Middle District of Florida 2002
• U. S. District Court, Southern District of Florida 2002

• Kubicki Draper Hospitality, Retail, and Premises Liability Practice Group, Member
• Kubicki Draper Pre-Suit Practice Group, Member
• Florida Bar Association

• Super Lawyers Magazine, Florida Rising Stars (2010)