Jason Burge

Partner Jason Burge represents victims of financial misconduct in single plaintiff, mass action, and class action cases against banks, loan servicers, stockbrokers, and investment firms. Jason is also an Appellate Practice Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

Jason represents individual and institutional investors and borrowers in securities fraud and lender liability cases in state court, federal court, and bankruptcy court, as well as FINRA arbitrations. He handles disputes involving allegations of statutory violations, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation, and fraud from fact investigation through trial and appellate practice.

Additionally, Jason represents both plaintiffs and defendants in class action litigation. Currently, he serves as interim lead counsel for a putative class of former beneficiaries of an ERISA pension plan of a liquidated insurance company in Puerto Rico. He is also lead counsel defending a Louisiana automotive insurer against multiple putative class actions alleging improper adjustment of total loss claims.

Recently, Jason led the Fishman Haygood team that reached a nationwide class action settlement with Navient Solutions, LLC and Navient Credit Finance Corporation (“Navient”) which resulted in approximately $236 million in debt relief for private student loan borrowers, as well as $44 million in cash compensation.

Jason is a former United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit clerk, and he has argued before the United States Fifth and Ninth Circuits and the Louisiana Second, Third, and Fourth Circuits. Jason regularly briefs and argues state and federal appeals across a broad range of practice areas.

Jason is a member of Public Investors Advocate Bar Association, having previously served as editor-in-chief of the bar’s journal. He has published on securities and arbitration topics in the Tulane Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, and Gonzaga Law Review.

Updated Sep 2025

• Represents a putative class of former employees of Real Legacy Assurance Company, a failed property insurer in Puerto Rico. Following the placement of the insurance company in liquidation and its sale to Cooperativa de Seguros Multiples de Puerto Rico, it became apparent that the defined benefit pension plan was underfunded to the tune of $22 million, and many vested participants would receive no benefits. The defendants include Cooperativa, Banco Popular as Plan Trustee, Willis Towers Watson as plan actuary, and Santander Securities as the Plan’s investment advisor. Fishman Haygood defeated the defendants’ motions to dismiss and obtained class certification, and the firm has settled with all but two defendants.
  
  
• Represented Craig Jalbert as Liquidating Trustee of German Pellets Louisiana and Louisiana Pellets, Inc. The firm prosecuted securities fraud claims assigned by investors to Mr. Jalbert against Raymond James as underwriter of over $330 million of public finance municipal bonds used to construct a wood pellet manufacturing facility in Urania, La.
  
  
• Represented a class of stockholders of a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), TS Innovation Acquisitions, Inc. (TSIA), who were given misinformation, including inflated sales revenue, bogus hardware sales figures, and unrealistic plans for international market expansion, regarding its merger with Latch, Inc. A $29.75 million settlement on behalf of the investors was finalized by the Delaware Court of Chancery on July 10, 2025.
  
  
• Represented a class of student loan debtors in a recent nationwide settlement with Navient Solutions, LLC and Navient Credit Finance Corporation (“Navient”) which resulted in approximately $236 million in debt relief for private student loan borrowers, as well as $44 million in cash compensation. As stated in the class action lawsuit, Navient and its agents refused to recognize the discharges of these private student loans that were (a) to attend non-Title IV schools and programs or (b) made in excess of the cost of attendance and then continued to collect on the loans even after borrowers obtained bankruptcy discharges.
  
  
• Represents GoAuto Insurance in a series of class actions involving its adjustment of total loss claims and its policy cancellation practices. Two of the class actions allege that GoAuto improperly uses third-party software to adjust claims resulting in lower payment to insureds. A third class action alleges that GoAuto improperly fails to pay tax, title and license fees to insured when adjusting total loss claims. Each of these class actions covers more than 10,000 putative members and involve tens of millions of dollars of potential liability.

• Appellate
• Arbitration
• Bankruptcy
• Class action
• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Insolvency
• Plaintiff
• Securities

• Banking
• Financial services
• Insurance
• Investment management

• J.D., magna cum laude - New York University School of Law - 2006
• B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude - The Ohio State University - 2000

• Louisiana State Bar Association - 2006
• Federal Bar Association - 2006
• New Orleans Bar Association    
• Public Investors Advocate Bar Association    

• Louisiana - 2006
• Texas - 2019