JOHN M. A. BURGESS ATTORNEY AT LAW

57 Post Street, Suite 901
San Francisco, CA 94104
PHONE: (415) 392-8003
FAX: (415) 392-8113

GRADUATE EDUCATION:

1994-1999
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, CA. Degree: M. S. (Marriage and Family Therapy) (M.F.T.) Honors

1970 (Summer)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, N.Y. Special Student (Employment Discrimination Law)

1968-70
THE NATIONAL LAW CENTER, Geo. Wash. U., Wash., D.C Completed course work for LL.M. (Law & Poverty) Highest Honors

1964
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, COLLEGE OF LAW, Moscow, Idaho. Degree: JD(Juris Doctor)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1994 - Present
PRIVATE PRACTICE, San Francisco, CA.
Immigration & Nationality Law Emphasizing Asylum Claims

1976-1993
PRIVATE PRACTICE, Hilo and Kamuela, (Big Island) HI.
Criminal defense-family law-small business-nonprofit corps.

1972 - 1976
PUBLIC DEFENDER, County and Island of Hawaii
Chief Administrator and General Criminal Defense

1972
DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, Honolulu, Hawaii
General Criminal Prosecution

1971
REGIONAL COUNSEL, New York Regional Office, E.E.O.C.
Legal-administrative responsibility for Northeast Region-U.S.

1970
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO GENERAL COUNSEL, E.E.O.C.
Drafted E.E.O.C. Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Sex

1969
LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT, U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink
Administered office, legislative drafting, congressional casework

1968 STAFF/SUPERVISING ATTORNEY, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii
Juvenile/criminal/family cases and general civil law

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF LAW, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Criminal Law Procedure, Adjunct Professor, Fall, 1979

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO & WEST HAWAII CAMPUS:
Administration of Justice Program: Constitutional Law, Spring 1992, Fall, 1992
Introduction to National Politics (Political Science), Spring, 1992

Introduction to the Courts & Legal System (Political Science), Spring, 1992
College of Continuing Education: Mythology of Joseph Campbell, Fall, 1991
Archetypes of the Mature Masculine: (Kinq, Warrior. Maqician. Lover) Fall, 1991

PUBLICATIONS:

A Poverty Lawyer Visits Mississippi, Hawaii Bar Journal, April, 1969
Citizens' Grievance Procedure Applicable to Federal Programs for Urban Poverty at the Neighborhood Level, New York Law Forum, Spring, 1971

Forced Abortion & Involuntary Sterilization: Prohibited by 1994 Convention
Against Torture and Binding on INS Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, CA.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Mentor & Volunteer Lawyer, Lawyers Comm. for Civil Rights Under Law, S.F.Bay
Area: Pro Bono Political Asylum Project, 1994-2002

California Trustee, National Lawyers Alliance for Justice in North Ireland, 1995-2002

Mentor & Volunteer Lawyer, International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet, 2000-2002
Clinical Intern-North Country Mental Health Services, Daly City, CA 1998-1999
Clinical lntern--S.F. Chinatown/North Beach Mental Health Services, 1997 - 1998
Individual psychotherapy with severely disordered/psychotic persons.

Steering Comm./Legal Advisor/--Healing Center for Survivors of Political Torture, Individual and group clinical treatment of torture survivors from Central America, Bosnia, Cambodia & other countries for P.T.S.D. Disorder, depression, anxiety & brain damage supporting political asylum claims. San Francisco, 1996 - 1998

Member, American Immigration Lawyers Assoc. & Hawaii & No. Ca. Chapters, Present Member, Hawaii State Bar Association, 1966 - Present

Member, Bar Association of San Francisco, 1994 - 2000
Vice President & Counsel--American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, 1967
Scholarship as 1st Hawaii Participant, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Boulder, Colorado, 1977
President, Hawaii County Bar Association, 1975-1976
Hawaii Representative, Harvard Conference on Law and Poverty, 1967
Volunteer Lawyer-lawyers Comm. for Civil Rights Under Law-Jackson, Miss.1967

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Pro Bono Attorney, Federal court representation of 25 Golden Venture Chinese refugees seeking asylum in the U. S. from forced abortion, 1994-2001

Nominated for 1998 American Bar Association Senior Lawyers Division Pro Bono Award for providing outstanding pro bono legal services in a case of great public import having a broad effect upon the legal rights/interests of immigrants for Golden Venture representation resulting in new Federal legislation granting 1000 (now unlimited) refugees fleeing forced abortion/sterilization asylum in the U.S. each year.

Panelist, Immigration Law (Proposition 187), Conference on Human Rights in the United States, San Francisco State University, January, 1995

Testified, Hearings on Coercive Population Control In China, June 22, 1995 Subcommittee On International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee On International Relations, U.S. House of Rep., Washington, D.C.

Chair, M.F.C.C.-Attorney~Psychotherapist Committee, San Francisco Chapter, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, 1995-1996

Member, Hawaii County Commission on the Status of Women, 1975-1977

Legal Advisor, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, 1972-74

Drafted provision for Hawaii to become first state in nation to ratify the E.R.A.

Legal Counsel, N.A.A.C.P., Honolulu, 1968

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES:

Jon Wu, Attorney At Law, 650 N. San Mateo Dr., San Mateo, CA 94401,
650-342-3523 x230

Jon Miho, President, Trinity Investment Trust, former partner, McCorriston Miho & Miller, One Aloha Tower Dr., Suite 3100, Hon. HI 96813
Phone: (808) 529-0909

William H. Brown, III, former Chairman, E. E. O. C., Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis,
1600 Market Street, Phil. PA 19103
Phone: (215) 751-2434

Frank T. Read, Dean (former Dean, Hastings College of Law)
S. Texas College of Law, 1303 San Jacinto Street, Houston,Tex 77002
Phone: (713) 659-8040

John M. Burgess
57 Post Street, Suite 901
San Francisco, CA 94104
(Near Montgomery BART Stop)
Phone: 415-392-8003
Fax: 415-392-8113

Office Hours Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday by appointment