Francis B. Burch, Jr.
Chairman of the DLA Piper Global Board and Co-chairman of DLA Piper LLP (US)
Mr. Burch is the chairman of the DLA Piper Global Board and co-chairman of DLA Piper LLP (US). He has helped lead the evolution of what was once Piper & Marbury, a regional firm based in Maryland with 250 lawyers, to DLA Piper, which now has over 3,500 lawyers in over 60 offices in 30 countries.
A trustee of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Mr. Burch recently served on the search committee to select the university's new president. He is currently a director of Equal Justice Works and is past chairman of the board of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the University of Maryland School of Law and The Leadership of Greater Baltimore and has served on the boards of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Calvert School in Baltimore, Jemicy School and Dome Corporation.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and an honors graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif.