Fariz M. Burhanuddin is a trial lawyer who built Burhanuddin Law to give founders, small and mid-sized businesses, and real estate principals the kind of representation usually reserved for Fortune 500 clients — without the BigLaw bill, the BigLaw bureaucracy, or the BigLaw conflicts.

Recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star for seven consecutive years, Fariz handles bet-the-company commercial disputes, shareholder and partnership breakups, and the commercial and residential real estate matters that make or break closely held companies. He has tried cases to verdict, defeated breach-of-contract claims through alter ego and veil-piercing defenses, and recovered attorneys’ fees from opponents who underestimated him.

Before founding the firm, Fariz cut his teeth as a 711-licensed law clerk in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, where he argued and won felony motions in open court. That courtroom DNA still defines the practice: opposing counsel learn quickly that a demand letter from Burhanuddin Law is not a negotiating tactic — it is a preview of what will happen at trial.

Fariz also teaches the next generation of trial lawyers as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Chicago-Kent College of Law, a role he has held since 2017. He previously coached the school’s nationally ranked Trial Advocacy team. Referral partners send him their hardest commercial files because he handles them personally, communicates directly with the client, and does not farm work out to a leveraged army of associates.

If you are a business owner, investor, or fellow attorney looking for a litigator who will outwork, outprepare, and outflank larger firms — and who actually answers the phone — you are in the right place.

Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy I, Chicago-Kent College of Law (2017 to Present)
• Asst. Coach of Trial Advocacy Team, Chicago-Kent College of Law (2015 to 2020)
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, Privacy & Information Security Council
• South Asian Bar Association
• Muslim Bar Association
• Will County Bar Association
• Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association