Admitted
1970, Virginia; 1972, District of Columbia; 1974, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia; 1975, U.S. Supreme Court; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Law School
American University, J.D., 1970
Law School Graduation Year
1970
College
Mount St. Mary's College, B.S., 1961
Memberships
District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Tort and Insurance Practice; Litigation; Member, Forum Committee on Air and Space Law, 1983—); Virginia State Bar; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Commercial Pilot with Multiengine, Helicopter and Instrument Ratings, 1965.
Biographical
Member, Editorial Board and Articles Editor, The American University Law Review, 1969-1970. Trial Attorney, Aviation Litigation Unit, Torts Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970-1973. Counsel for the U.S. Government in numerous aviation disaster cases, including the 1972 Eastern Airlines L-1011 crash in the Florida Everglades. Member, Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) in numerous aviation disaster cases including: Eastern Airlines DC-9 crash at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1974; TWA 727 crash near Upperville, Virginia, 1974; Air Canada DC-9 fire at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1983; Arrow Air DC-8 crash at Gander, Newfoundland, 1985; Northwest Airlines MD-80 air crash at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, 1987; USAir disaster, La Guardia Airport, 1992; USAir 737 disaster near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994; Valujet DC-9 disaster in the Florida Everglades, 1996. Counsel: Varig 707 fire disaster near Paris, France, 1973; Pan Am and KLM 747 collision on the Island of Tenerife, 1977; Air Florida 737 disaster at Washington, D.C., 1982; Air India 747 bombing over the Irish Sea, 1985; United Airlines DC-10 crash at Sioux City, Iowa, 1989; American Eagle ATR72 icing crash near Roselawn, Indiana, 1994; American Airlines 757 Cali, Colombia crash, 1995; TWA 800 disaster of Long Island, N.Y., 1996; and the 1999 crash of a Learjet 35 which claimed the life of champion golfer Payne Stewart and his Companions. (Resident, Arlington, Virginia Office)
Military
Capt., USMCR, active flight duty, 1963-1967