Justin Timberlake has been battling a sea of negative headlines after he was arrested last week for allegedly drug driving in the Hamptons amid his world tour. But the “Cry Me a River” singer may have put one foot right by hiring a local powerhouse attorney to the stars who has handled some similarly high-profile cases.
Edward Burke Jr. is a Hamptons attorney who has previously represented Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd, disgraced former Today Show host Matt Lauer, publicist Lizzie Grubman, and other famous clients. The son of a former state Supreme Court judge, Burke was a Suffolk County prosecutor before becoming a criminal defense attorney and a household name among legal types in the ritzy Long Island enclave.
“In addition to being my lawyer, he was my confidant, my friend, and my psychiatrist,” Grubman, a New York “it” girl who spent 38 days in jail in 2022 after backing up her father’s SUV into a crowd outside a Hamptons nightclub, told The New York Times in 2004. “When I was crying in the middle of the night, and that was probably almost every night since the accident, Eddie was the one I called.”
