D. Keith Andress

Keith Andress is a partner in the firm’s General Commercial Litigation practice group where he represents clients in complex commercial litigation and construction disputes. His broad experience includes breach-of-contract actions, business torts, and theft of trade secret matters.

Keith is both a registered mediator with the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association. He also defends financial institutions and loan servicers in litigation and represents builders, engineers, and suppliers in breach of contract and negligence construction cases. Keith was recently lead counsel in two TCPA trials where his clients both received judgment in their favor. He brings to Burr his prior experience working in insurance defense handling insurance coverage issues.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Keith obtained his CPA certificate and practiced public accounting at Ernst & Young. Because of his trial experience and CPA, Keith is often brought into cases to depose and cross examine the opposing party’s financial damages expert witnesses.

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law since 2011; Product Liability Litigation - Defendants; since 2013; Construction Law since 2016; Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants since 2018; Litigation - Construction since 2018; Commercial Litigation since 2020; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants since 2020; Litigation - Banking and Finance since 2021; Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law since 2021; Corporate Law since 2022; Commercial Transactions / UCC Law since 2023; Financial Services Regulation Law since 2025
• The Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year", Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law (2024)
• Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation Defense (2012 – 2017); Real Estate (2018, 2019); Business Litigation (since 2020)
• Member – American, Alabama, and Birmingham Bar Associations
• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Fellow – Trial Lawyer Honor Society, Litigation Counsel of America
• Fellow – Birmingham Bar Foundation
• Fellow – American Bar Foundation

• Mediator, Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution
• Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association 

Legal Practice Assistant

Yvonne W. Rudolph
(205) 458-5164
yrudolph@burr.com