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David KatzmanDavid Katzman is a leading expert in the field of aviation law with extensive litigation experience in complex personal injury, wrongful death and commercial product liability claims. He has successfully litigated numerous cases, winning favorable judgments and settlements involving product design, component failure, pilot error, and airplane crashworthiness. In addition to lawsuits involving product liability law, Mr. Katzman has successfully litigated common air carrier cases involving the ground collision accident of Northwest Flights 229 and 1482 in Detroit; Northwest Flight 255 in Detroit; the Arrow Air disaster in Gander, New Foundland; Comair Flight 3972 in Monroe, MI; American Eagle Flight 3379 in N. Carolina; and USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh, among others. Before graduating from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1982, Mr. Katzman first worked as a clerk with the Firm and then as a Legislative Correspondent in the U.S. House of Representatives. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. After graduating from law school, Mr. Katzman practiced aviation law in Miami, Florida, before returning to the Firm in 1987. David Katzman's interest in aviation began at an early age. He completed his first flying lesson at the age of fourteen, piloted his first solo flight at sixteen, earned his pilot's license at seventeen, his instrument flight rating at 18, and has been a certified commercial pilot since he was twenty. He now logs several hundred flight hours a year piloting the Firm's aircraft. He holds a jet aircraft type rating from the FAA and has accumulated several thousand hours of flight time. Mr. Katzman is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (where he serves on the executive committee), the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. He lectures regularly on aviation litigation, its emerging legal theories, doctrines and case law. Licensed to practice law in Michigan and Florida, Mr. Katzman has also appeared before courts throughout the United States, in Argentina, Costa Rica, and the Cayman Islands. He has testified before the United States Congress on proposed aviation legislation and has published articles on the subject of aviation trial tactics. Our Firm handles cases involving general aviation, corporate, and common carrier airline accidents throughout the world. All of our senior partners are pilots. They hold a variety of certificates and ratings, including Air Transport Pilot, Commercial Pilot type certification on several jet aircraft, multi-engine aircraft and instrument ratings. |
