Michael J Burwick

Michael Burwick is Of Counsel to The Wagner Law Group and is resident in the firm's Boston Office. At Wagner, Michael specializes in Securities Law, Tax Law and ERISA matters. He is also General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Trust Advisory Group, Ltd. (a registered investment adviser) and Advisory Group Equity Services, Ltd. (a broker-dealer) based in Greater Boston.

Michael is an authority on tax law, securities law and compliance issues attendant thereto. He has served in a number of roles in the financial services and legal arenas that include positions as a compliance consultant, a due diligence officer and as a big firm attorney serving broker-dealers, investment advisers, various funds and other entities including private equity, venture capital and investment banking platforms that are participants in the capital markets.

Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, magna cum laude with Distinction in the field of Sociology. While at BU, he was the two-time winner of the Diedre H. Symington Sociology Prize. Michael went on to distinguish himself at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, graduating with his J.D. in 1995, cum laude. At Georgetown Law, he served on the Editorial Board of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the preeminent publication devoted to the subject of ethics and the law, and he was published in the Journal in 1994. Michael attended the MBA program at the Leonard N. Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University and he returned to Georgetown Law to obtain his LL.M. in Taxation and his LL.M. in Securities Law and Financial Regulation. Both of these degrees were awarded with multiple honors including the CALI Award for Excellence in the field of Financial Accounting for Attorneys.

Michael is actively licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts of Florida, the District of Columbia and before the United States Tax Court. He is a candidate for Admission on Motion to the Massachusetts Bar.

Michael serves on the Board of Directors of Autism Speaks and on the Georgetown University Law Advisory Board. He is actively involved in a wide array of other charitable, philanthropic and civic organizations. He enjoys golf, tennis, power boating, sailing, hiking, skiing and he is an avid Boston sports fan. Michael lives in Weston, Massachusetts with his wife and children and a large, black standard poodle named Achilles.