Ben Burnside
Associate Attorney
- 2006 N.C. State Courts
- 2006 Federal District Court for the Middle District of N.C.
Ben Burnside is passionate about representing the rights of the physically and mentally disabled. In order to be a more knowledgeable and effective advocate, he focuses his practice solely on Social Security Disability. As a representative before the Social Security Administration, he helps his clients fight the bureaucracy to receive the disability benefits that they are entitled to, especially when they have been denied those benefits in the past.
Ben is a proven advocate for his clients. In 2008, he became a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a prestigious association of trial lawyers. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million dollar or multimillion dollar verdicts, awards or settlements for their clients. Less than 1 percent of attorneys in the United States are members of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and fewer than 100 attorneys in North Carolina have earned the distinction since the group was founded in 1993.
A native of Greensboro, N.C., Ben graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2003 with a bachelor's degree with honors in Philosophy and Religion. He earned his juris doctorate with honors in 2006 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, and in the same year he was admitted to the North Carolina State Bar.
While a law student, Ben completed internships with the Deuterman Law Group and with U.S. Middle District Court Judge James A. Beaty, Jr. In 2008, Ben’s colleagues in the Disability Advocacy Section of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice elected him as co-chairman of the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee. He is also a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives (NOSSCR), the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ), the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), and the Greensboro Bar Association (GBA).
He resides in Greensboro.
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