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This is for recently admitted high-performing Florida attorneys, who landed the job they chased and now wonder if this is it, and for 3Ls who do not want to end up there.

Are you a year or two into practice and the position or firm is not what you want it to be? Maybe you are at a larger firm and you are getting ground out, handling a sliver of a matter for clients you never meet. Maybe you are at a small shop and getting thrown to the wolves with a stack of files and a "figure it out." Either way, you have done the work to get here, and nobody is investing in making you great at it.

If that sounds familiar, the problem is probably not the profession. It is the training environment. And if you are a 3L, you can skip that detour entirely. I wrote this post for both of you, because I have seen both sides of it, and the 3L version of this story is the one I know best.

I was the hustling 3L. I got my JD/MBA is three years, worked full time 2L & 3L years, led organizations, and I worked harder than almost anyone around me. I did what ambitious 3Ls do and went after the biggest law firm name that would take me. I got it. Then I found out what I had caught. It was a job built for someone else, in a system that had no plan for developing talent. Burg Law is the firm I wish had existed then, and I am building it around people like us.

Who We Are and What You'll Do

Burg Law is located in downtown Panama City and represents community associations and corporate clients across the Florida Panhandle. That gives us a narrow client base with a broad range of issues, primarily:
policy work like governing document interpretation, rule and policy drafting, and board governance questions,
contract review like vendor agreements, construction contracts, lease agreements, and service contracts, and
litigation like contract disputes, covenant enforcement actions, and collections.
As an associate, you'll go through a structured training program on core community association and corporate concepts that runs in parallel with real client work. When a board meeting, financial issue, or contract review comes up, we match it to the training schedule. You learn the concept and apply it on a live matter right away, so you become more capable, more confident, and frankly more valuable to the firm.

If you already have a year or two of practice, you will not sit through material you have mastered. We build your training around what is new to you so you reach independent work faster.

A Message from Brandon Burg, Founder

If you are a few years in, some of this will sound familiar. You probably have classmates who chased clerkships or big law jobs in Atlanta, Miami, DC, Tampa, or Orlando. When I was finishing my JD/MBA at FSU, that is what I did. I graduated law school in 2008 and practiced at a prestigious, silk-stocking firm with more than 100 attorneys in downtown Tampa. What I found was crazy hours, layers of bureaucracy, and almost no view of the full picture of a case or a client. I regularly got small research projects for clients I never got to talk to, and never understood how my sliver fit into the whole.

On the other end of the spectrum are the small shops that run on chaos. Most have no systems and no training, just an overworked lead attorney who drops files on your desk and tells you to "figure it out as you go." Many are successful, but they do not have the time to develop a young attorney.

With Burg Law, I have tried to build the intentional path that was never provided for me. It is a structured, high-performance firm where you get real client experience from day one, with real mentorship and proven systems designed to make you successful and, in turn, make the firm successful. That includes using AI deliberately so your time goes toward strategy and judgment instead of form-filling busywork. I think AI will reshape the practice of law more than the internet did, and I would rather you be ahead of that shift than behind it.

My goal is to build Burg Law into the most prominent firm in Northwest Florida and ultimately a statewide leader in our field. The firm rests on a simple belief. People want to do meaningful work with people they care about, earn good compensation, and still have time for other things.

Who Thrives Here
You must be smart, hardworking, and collaborative. Those are non-negotiable because I cannot train them. We are not checking class rank boxes. Long-term success here comes from curiosity, personal and professional discipline, and interpersonal and emotional intelligence. It does not come from rote memorization of statutes.

If you have competed in sports at a high level, led organizations, or stayed deeply involved in law school life, if you like solving problems and talking with people, and if you seek feedback to get better quickly, you will do very well at Burg Law. The same is true if you are a few years into practice and ready for a place that rewards those traits.

Requirements and Start Date
You must be admitted to The Florida Bar or on track to be. 3Ls will sit for the Florida Bar exam after graduation, and an offer is contingent on admission.