Ronald L. Burdge

Ronald Burdge retired in 2025, and was a leading lemon law attorney known nationally for fighting for the rights of RV owners and helping them get rid of their lemon RVs of all types. As the founder and managing partner of Burdge Law Office, Ron has practiced exclusively in the areas of RV lemon law, Lemon law, and Consumer law since 1978. Ronald L. Burdge is consumer Law Trial Attorney in private practice in Dayton, Ohio since 1978. A sizeable percentage of the reported cases under Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act (the Ohio UDAP law) come from Mr. Burdge’s years of representing thousands of consumers in Auto-Fraud and Lemon cases in three states and numerous federal courts. He is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and has extensive trial and appellate experience in individual and class action cases involving lenders, car dealers and manufacturers, and is one of the few Consumer Law Trial Attorneys who has tried a class action case to a jury. In 2004, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

• Attorney

• College Teaching, Lectures, Consumer Law, Attorneys, Judges, Private Sector, Car Dealer Owner-Operators, Finance and Lending institution Officers and Managers

• Turner v. Bob Ross Buick, Inc.
• Citation: 1993 WL 485256
• Court: Ohio App. 2 Dist.
• Year: 1993
• Serial Number: 1993224575
• State v. Rose Chevrolet, Inc.
• Citation: 1993 WL 229392
• Court: Ohio App. 12 Dist.
• Serial Number: 1993132299
• Sprovach v. Bob Ross Buick, Inc.
• Citation: 628 N.E.2d 82
• Serial Number: 1994022656
• Bittner v. Tri-County Toyota, Inc.
• Citation: 569 N.E.2d 464
• Court: Ohio
• Year: 1991
• Serial Number: 1991062340
• Einhorn v. Ford Motor Co.
• Citation: 548 N.E.2d 933
• Year: 1990
• Serial Number: 1990019624
• Brown v. Liberty Clubs, Inc.
• Citation: 543 N.E.2d 783
• Year: 1989
• Serial Number: 1989127803
• Rose Chevrolet, Inc. v. Adams
• Citation: 520 N.E.2d 564
• Year: 1988
• Serial Number: 1988039288
• Hardeman v. Wheels, Inc.
• Citation: 565 N.E.2d 849
• Serial Number: 1991032527
• Crull v. Maple Park Body Shop
• Citation: 521 N.E.2d 1099
• Year: 1987
• Serial Number: 1988051873
• In re Hurst Lincoln-Mercury, Inc.
• Citation: 72 B.R. 747
• Court: Bkrtcy.S.D.Ohio
• Serial Number: 1987059292
• Brooks v. Hurst Buick-Pontiac-Olds-GMC, Inc.
• Citation: 491 N.E.2d 345
• Year: 1985
• Serial Number: 1986119718
• Matter of Thacker
• Citation: 24 B.R. 835
• Year: 1982
• Serial Number: 1982151344
• Benchic v. Century Entertainment Corp.
• Citation: 25 B.R. 502
• Serial Number: 1982155223
• Matter of Century Entertainment Corp.
• Citation: 21 B.R. 160
• Serial Number: 1982131151
• Citation: 20 B.R. 126
• Serial Number: 1982123045
• In re Walters
• Citation: 17 B.R. 644
• Serial Number: 1982109033
• Phillips v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.
• Citation: 398 N.E.2d 564
• Year: 1979
• Serial Number: 1980339785

• Ohio, 1978
• Kentucky, 2004
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1979
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 1979
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 2005
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1982

• Ohio State Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Columbus Bar Association (Member)
• Dayton Bar Association (Member)
• Cincinnati Bar Association (Member)