Office: Vilnius
Phone: +44 7542 201161
E-mail: andrew.burr@varul.com

Practices

Andrew Burr

Affiliate Lawyer

Andrew Burr has an impressive record of successful legal work in domestic and international mediation, adjudication and arbitration. The Legal 500 named Andrew as a “hardworking” and “a good lawyer and a good advocate”.

Andrew is a tutor on various expert witness courses and participant in mock mediations, tutor on Hill International master classes on the analysis of delay and disruption in construction contracts and tutor to various Baltic States teams at the Vis Arbitration Moot. Also Andrew is a chair of various conferences on dispute avoidance and resolution in construction and technology matters throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. Andrew has published numerous of articles in international legal journals and has impressive experience as an editor.
Career

2011 to date Affiliate Lawyer, Law Firm VARUL
2009-2011 Affiliate Lawyer, Varul Vilgerts Smaliukas
1983 to date Member and Barrister of Atkin Chambers

Education

1980 Trinity Hall, Cambridge, M.A. (Law)

Membership

Swiss Arbitration Association
British Italian Law Association
Associated member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb)

Languages

English
Italian
French
German


Editorial experience

  • Since 2006 to date Joint Editor (with Keith Pickavance) of Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts On-line (Lloyds of London Press)
  • 2006 Assistant Editor of Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts, Third Edition by Keith Pickavance (Lloyds of London Press)
  • 1994-2000 General Editor of European Construction Contracts (Wiley Chancery Law)
  • 1999-2002 Founder Editor of Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal (Lloyds of London Press)
  • Since 1984 to date Founder Editor, General and Articles Editor of Construction Law Journal (Sweet and Maxwell)
  • 1981-1990 Articles Editor of Current Law (Sweet and Maxwell)

Representative articles, books and other publications

  • “Chess Clock” Arbitration and Time Management Techniques in International Commercial Arbitration (with Pierre Karrer), 2010
  • Report on the ResoLex mock mediation in January 2007
  • Papers from a Joint Meeting of the European Branch and the Swiss Arbitration
  • Association, Villars sur Ollon, Switzerland, March 24-26, 2006, Arbitration, November 2006
  • Papers from the Joint Meeting in Dublin of the European and Irish Branches, Arbitration, February 2006
  • The Consideration of Critical Path Analysis in English Law, 2005
  • ENDR’s Fast Arbitration Rules:  a Comparative View, Arbitration, May 2005
  • Fast Arbitration Rules in Europe:  A Comparison, Chambers Client Report, February 2005
  • Med-Arb:  A Viable Hybrid Solution?, Les Arbitres Internationaux, 2005
  • Session 11(A) Submitting and Presenting Evidence – Adversarial, Inquisitorial and Mid-Way Rules of Evidence, Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria, 2004