Burnett Injury Group

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Burnett Injury Group is a personal injury law firm dedicated to advocating for victims involved in car crashes, premises liability injuries, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect and sexual assault survivors. Co-founded and co-led by Suzanne Burnett, an award-winning trial attorney, the firm operates on the principle that injured individuals should not have to fight for fair treatment after experiencing an unfortunate incident caused by someone else’s negligence.

The firm’s commitment to women begins at its leadership level, with Burnett serving as co-founder and co-leader alongside her founding partner and spouse, Andrew Burnett. Her personal experience launching and building a law practice while starting her own family gives her a unique perspective on the challenges women face navigating life transitions while pursuing demanding careers. That perspective informs a firm culture built on empathy, flexibility and inclusion. Through professional mentorship, industry involvement and advocacy, Burnett Injury Group built the firm to enable women’s success in law alongside its client-centric approach.

As a small firm, Burnett Injury Group offers personalized mentorship and development, particularly through direct training and guidance from its co-leader, Suzanne Burnett. She understands firsthand the challenges women face balancing life transitions and career growth, blending work and life with her founding partner and spouse Andrew Burnett and their three children. Suzanne also created and runs the firm’s law clerk program, handling recruitment, hiring and providing one-on-one mentorship to ensure early-career professionals receive practical training and thoughtful support.

Burnett has been a partner or owner of two firms over the past nine years. During that time, she has mentored over a dozen law clerks, the majority of whom have been women who have sought to learn under a female trial lawyer, business owner, wife and mom.

The firm demonstrates its commitment to gender diversity through its hiring and advancement practices. Women make up 50% of the legal team and more than 75% of the entire staff. While the firm is boutique in size, women hold key roles within the team, and the firm consistently prioritizes gender equity in hiring and advancement.

Burnett Injury Group actively engages in community initiatives aimed at combating inequality. Burnett served as the co-chair of the Maryland Association for Justice Inc.’s Women’s Caucus for the past three years.

In that role, she actively worked to empower women in the legal profession by helping increase leadership roles of women within the association, providing educational programming for members on issues affecting women in the law, mentoring women attorneys and providing members with a professional and social support network. Burnett has also played a key role in planning the annual seminar designed to support these efforts.

As of June 2025, Burnett stepped back from her role as co-chair of the MAJ Women’s Caucus to allow associate attorney Alicen Jobes to step up and into the role Burnett was formerly held as the new co-chair. Burnett remains on the executive committee and is also an active member of the Society for Women Trial Lawyers, where she shares insights, offers resources and provides support to fellow female trial attorneys nationwide. She has provided two articles to their membership detailing how she started her firm and the challenges of being a mom, trial lawyer and business owner.

Burnett Injury Group’s most significant accomplishments in empowering women begin with its leadership: the firm is co-founded and co-led by Suzanne Burnett, an award-winning trial attorney, mom of three and longtime mentor to women in law. Burnett has personally mentored over a dozen women law clerks through the firm’s hands-on development program and built a workplace culture grounded in empathy, flexibility and inclusion. Her impact extends beyond the firm through her leadership in the Maryland Association for Justice Women’s Caucus and the Society for Women Trial Lawyers. Her efforts have earned recognition, including The Daily Record’s “Top 100 Women” and “Leading Women,” reflecting the firm’s deep commitment to advancing women in the legal profession.

Future goals include strengthening community partnerships with organizations focused on women’s empowerment and legal equity, and providing scholarship assistance to women.

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