Aviation Lawyers
9,145 verified aviation attorneys across the United States. Aviation attorneys for aircraft accidents, FAA regulation, pilot defense, and aviation industry matters. Compare verified aviation attorneys nationwide by experience, peer ratings, and client reviews — get matched with counsel in any state, free for clients.
Farid Yaghoubtil is a lawyer practicing personal injury, uber / lyft accidents, catastrophic injuries and 12 other areas of law. Farid received a B.A....
Scott L. Anderson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1982.
Craig Swapp has committed his career to helping people who have been injured or killed because of someone else’s wrongdoing or negligence. As a Person...
Mr. John Davis Hoffman is a lawyer practicing civil trial, co-chair, committees: and 5 other areas of law.
Mr. John David Hadden is a lawyer practicing personal injury, car accidents, motorcycle accidents and 10 other areas of law.
Matthew H. Bligh graduated from Brooklyn Law School, cum laude and the United States Merchant Marine Academy, magna cum laude.
J. Bradley Powell is a lawyer practicing product liability, pharmaceuticals, medical devices & healthcare, aviation and aerospace and 2 other areas of...
Patrick Joseph Cooney is a lawyer practicing accident insurance, health insurance, products liability and 2 other areas of law. Patrick Joseph receive...
Gregg A Tatarka is a lawyer practicing accountants, admiralty & maritime, lawsuits & disputes and 3 other areas of law. Gregg received a B.A. degree f...
Andrew Kryder is the founding member of The Kryder Law Group LLC, bringing over 20 years of litigation experience to his practice, which focuses on pe...
Ranked by Washingtonian Magazine as a top personal injury lawyer since December 2004, Mr. Somer has practiced personal injury, wrongful death, product...
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Bobby R. Long has been a shareholder in the firm Dukes, Dukes, Keating & Faneca, P.A. since 2005.
Warren H Chin is a lawyer practicing aviation and transportation, commercial litigation, insurance coverage and carrier representation and 3 other are...
Dan and his clients have achieved outstanding results, both in and out of the courtroom, in a broad range of complex cases including hypoxic-ischemic ...
Ralph V. Pagano is a lawyer practicing aviation litigation, space litigation, products liability and 2 other areas of law.
Ronald Wayne Johnson, Attorney at Law is a lawyer practicing criminal law, white collar crime, aerospace contract fraud and 79 other areas of law. Ron...
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Mr. James Lloyd Paisley is a lawyer practicing auto accidents, truck accidents, rear end collisions and 17 other areas of law.
Over the past two decades, Eric Bachman has represented employees who have suffered employment discrimination and whistleblower retaliation at work. M...
Atty. Jeffrey Roy Zirgibel is a lawyer practicing trucking accident, personal injury, medical malpractice and 166 other areas of law.
Marco Ferri is a lawyer practicing corporate, mergers & acquisitions, commercial financing transactions and 8 other areas of law. Marco received a B.B...
Christopher E Carey is a lawyer practicing litigation, admiralty, insurance defense and 6 other areas of law. Christopher received a B.A. degree from ...
Troy M. Frederick is a lawyer practicing class action, personal injury, toxic torts and 13 other areas of law.
Poorad Razavi is a lawyer practicing advocacy, automobile accidents, aviation and 21 other areas of law. Poorad received a B.S. degree from Indiana Un...
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Mark Lawrence Schuh is a lawyer practicing aviation, debt collection, civil rights and 3 other areas of law. Mark received a B.A. degree from State Un...
John Pierce Kalled is the Managing Member of the Kalled Law Offices, PLLC, with offices in Ossipee and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mr.
Abram Isaac Bohrer is a lawyer practicing admiralty & maritime, personal injury, aviation and 2 other areas of law. Abram received a B.A. degree from ...
Joseph Lloyd Mooney is a lawyer practicing ethics & professional responsibility, personal injury, appeals and 3 other areas of law. Joseph received a ...
Jorge L. Flores practices at Law Offices of Jorge L.
Mr. Joshua Kirk McGill is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, law office management, alternative dispute resolution and 43 other areas of law.
Morry Sean Cole is a lawyer practicing wrongful death, personal injury, aviation litigation and 2 other areas of law. Morry has been licensed for 29 y...
Monica Anne Sansalone is a lawyer practicing appellate, estates, trusts, and probate, lawyer discipline & grievance and 6 other areas of law. Monica r...
Mr. Gary Iscoe is a lawyer practicing car accidents, drunk driving accident, distracted driving accidents and 32 other areas of law.
Mr. Edward John Page is a lawyer practicing 215, alternative dispute resolution, aviation law and 14 other areas of law.
Life can fall apart after an accident, but it doesn’t have to when you have a skilled personal injury attorney like Adam Williams of LV Personal Injur...
Drew was born and raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where he attended Choctawhatchee High School. He is the son of Vince Bruner of Fort Walton and...
Jason Aaron Glusman is a lawyer practicing aviation, breach of contract, catastrophic injury defense and 18 other areas of law. Jason received a B.A. ...
Mr. William Oneil Angelley is a lawyer practicing commercial, military & general aviation cases, personal injury and 3 other areas of law.
Uzoma Alexander Eze is a lawyer practicing bankruptcy, business, creditor-debtor and 9 other areas of law. Uzoma received a B.A. degree from Norfolk S...
Daniel Marc Braude is a lawyer practicing aviation & aerospace, commercial litigation, data privacy & security and 6 other areas of law. Daniel receiv...
Mr. Jay Richard McLemore is a lawyer practicing commercial disputes, contractual disputes, insurance bad faith and 15 other areas of law.
The Kreller Law Firm was founded by attorney Stephen S. Kreller to assist those individuals and businesses in distress throughout the states of Alabam...
Benjamin Gray Partlow is a Partner in the firm's West Palm Beach office, with a focus on a variety of civil litigation matters including motor vehicle...
Mr. Bill Lee Voss is a lawyer practicing business, consumer, creditor-debtor and 14 other areas of law.
Eric J Guerin is a lawyer practicing aviation law, business law, cottage law and 9 other areas of law. Eric received a B.A. degree from Michigan State...
Christopher Munro Young is a lawyer practicing litigation and arbitration, corporate, technology and media and 9 other areas of law. Christopher Munro...
Sean Harris is a lawyer practicing aviation & aerospace, aviation crashes and injuries, bad faith insurance claims and 40 other areas of law. Sean rec...
The principal attorney at his law firm in Dallas, Texas, Ron McCallum primarily practices personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He represents...
Brooks graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in finance and attended the Charleston School of Law. After college, Brooks worke...
Aaron Michael Jacobs is a lawyer practicing subrogation & recovery, aviation, litigation and 1 other area of law. Aaron received a B.A. degree from Fl...
Michael Allen Hession is a lawyer practicing aviation law, business litigation, business arbitration and 2 other areas of law. Michael received a B.A....
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Peter Basile is a skilled, experienced, and successful litigator. He heads the firm’s personal injury and professional malpractice law group.
William G. Kelly is a lawyer practicing general liability, product liability, business and commercial and 2 other areas of law.
Boyden James Pantone is a lawyer practicing personal injury, workers compensation, aviation and aerospace and 180 other areas of law. Boyden received ...
Thomas William Tobin is a lawyer practicing asia, aviation & aerospace, commercial litigation and 8 other areas of law. Thomas received a degree from ...
Hello, my name is Dr. Joseph Ramos and simply put, I love helping people.
Lee Miller Cohen is a Partner in the firm’s West Palm Beach office. Mr.
What is Aviation?
Aviation is the branch of law that governs the rights, obligations, and disputes that arise within its subject matter. In the United States, aviation sits at the intersection of statutes enacted by Congress, the regulations issued by federal agencies, the laws passed by all fifty state legislatures, and the body of judge-made decisions known as the common law. Because every state writes its own version of the rules, the way aviation works in one jurisdiction can look noticeably different from how it works in another, and that is one of the main reasons attorneys in this area focus their practice geographically — to stay fluent in the local statutes, court rules, and judicial preferences that shape outcomes.
At a practical level, Aviation attorneys spend their time on three categories of work. The first is advice and prevention: counselling clients on how to structure transactions, draft documents, and conduct business so that legal risk is minimised before a dispute ever begins. The second is transactional execution: producing the contracts, filings, notices, and registrations that the law actually requires to make a decision legally binding. The third is contested representation: defending or pursuing a client's interests when a dispute escalates to negotiation, regulatory enforcement, arbitration, or litigation in court.
The clients who hire Aviation lawyers range from individuals navigating a single life event to multinational corporations with complex regulatory exposure. What unifies them is the need for an experienced lawyer who knows the relevant code sections, has appeared in the relevant courts, and can translate the strategic options into language a client can act on. AttorneyQnA currently lists 9,145 verified aviation attorneys across the United States, each with a public profile showing their bar admissions, years in practice, and the kinds of matters they have handled — with the deepest concentration of practitioners in Texas.
When do you need an Aviation attorney?
Most people contact an aviation lawyer for one of two reasons: something is about to happen that they want done correctly the first time, or something has gone wrong and they need it fixed before it gets worse. The earlier you involve counsel, the more options you usually have, and the lower the cost of getting to a resolution tends to be. The scenarios below are the ones we see most often on AttorneyQnA from prospective clients searching for aviation representation.
Once your signature is on a contract, settlement, lease, or release, your bargaining leverage drops sharply. A short pre-signature review by an aviation lawyer is the cheapest insurance you can buy.
Cease-and-desist letters, regulatory notices, and demand letters all start clocks. Missing the response window can convert a manageable problem into a default judgment or formal enforcement action.
Statutes of limitations, filing windows, and appeal periods are jurisdictional — courts cannot extend them as a favour. If you can identify a date that matters, you need a lawyer before that date arrives.
The moment opposing counsel appears, the conversation moves out of normal English and into procedural language. Continuing unrepresented usually means losing ground you cannot recover later.
Forming an entity, choosing a venue, structuring a deal, or selecting a remedy each has long-term consequences. A consultation at the planning stage is far cheaper than redoing it after the fact.
Multi-state matters bring conflict-of-laws questions that change which statutes apply and which court has authority. An attorney licensed in the right jurisdiction is not optional.
If any of the situations above describes where you are right now, the next step is a focused consultation. Use the Ask a Lawyer tool for short written questions, or browse the 9,145 aviation attorneys listed above to book a paid consultation directly.
How to choose an Aviation attorney
The single biggest factor in choosing an aviation lawyer is fit with your specific matter. A lawyer with twenty years of aviation experience but no exposure to your particular sub-issue can easily be a worse choice than a five-year associate who has handled the same problem repeatedly. We recommend running every prospective lawyer through the same five-step checklist before signing an engagement letter.
- Bar admission in the correct jurisdiction. Confirm the lawyer is admitted in the state — and where relevant, the federal district — where your matter sits. The lawyer's profile on AttorneyQnA shows every bar admission on file, and the underlying state bar's "lawyer lookup" tool will confirm active standing in under a minute.
- Direct experience with your fact pattern. Ask plainly: "How many matters like mine have you handled in the last three years, and how did they resolve?" An honest answer reveals more than years-in-practice alone.
- A written fee agreement. Whether hourly, flat fee, contingent, or hybrid, the engagement letter should specify what is included, what triggers additional charges, and how disputes are handled. Avoid lawyers who resist writing the terms down.
- Communication cadence. Decide upfront how often you expect updates, who your day-to-day contact will be, and what response time is reasonable. The number-one complaint filed with state bar grievance committees is not malpractice — it is non-communication.
- Conflict check + reputation pulse. Make sure the lawyer has run a formal conflict check, then spend ten minutes reading independent reviews and any public disciplinary history. The state bar's website is authoritative for the second; the lawyer's AttorneyQnA profile collects the first.
Once you have a shortlist, schedule consultations with two or three. Lawyers vary widely in temperament, and the right strategic match for your case is sometimes the second or third lawyer you meet — not the first.
How much does an Aviation lawyer cost?
Legal fees in the United States are not regulated by a uniform schedule, so what you pay an aviation lawyer depends on the billing model the lawyer offers, the complexity of your matter, and the local market. There are four billing structures used in this practice area; most engagements use one, but hybrid arrangements are increasingly common.
1. Hourly billing
The default model for most non-contingent matters. Rates for aviation attorneys in the U.S. typically range from $150–$250/hour in smaller markets to $400–$700/hour in major metropolitan areas, with senior partners at large firms commanding $900/hour and above. Hourly billing is fairest when the scope of work is genuinely unpredictable, but it creates an incentive structure that the client has to monitor.
2. Flat fee
Increasingly used for well-defined transactions — incorporations, will drafting, single-issue filings, uncontested matters. A flat fee tells you exactly what the deliverable will cost, and the lawyer absorbs the risk of unexpected complexity. Ask whether the flat fee includes filing fees, third-party costs, and any post-filing follow-up.
3. Contingency
Where it is permitted by the rules of professional conduct — most often in plaintiff-side aviation work involving monetary recovery — the lawyer is paid a percentage of the proceeds, typically 33% before suit is filed and 40% after. The client pays nothing if there is no recovery. Contingency fees align the lawyer's economics with yours, but the percentage compounds across time, so very strong cases sometimes do better on hourly billing.
4. Retainer / subscription
A monthly fee that buys a defined block of access or hours. This is common for businesses with ongoing aviation needs — contract review, employee questions, regulatory check-ins. A subscription smooths out spending and gives the lawyer a reason to know your operation in depth.
Whichever model you choose, ask for an itemised written estimate before the engagement begins, and ask explicitly what is not covered. Surprise expenses are the most common source of attorney-client friction.
Frequently asked questions about aviation
How quickly can an aviation lawyer review my matter?
Most lawyers can schedule an initial consultation within 1–3 business days. Urgent matters — pending deadlines, time-sensitive notices, court-ordered hearings — should be flagged in your first message; many lawyers reserve emergency consultation slots for that reason. If you need a written answer faster, the Ask a Lawyer tool typically returns answers in under 24 hours.
Do I need a aviation lawyer in my exact city, or anywhere in my state?
Bar admission is the controlling rule: any attorney licensed in your state can represent you in that state's courts and agencies, regardless of which city they're based in. Practical proximity still matters for in-person meetings, local court familiarity, and access to the local bench and bar. For state-level filings and remote-friendly matters, an attorney elsewhere in the same state often works fine.
Will an initial consultation cost me anything?
Many aviation attorneys offer a free 15- to 30-minute initial consultation; others charge a flat consultation fee that may be credited against the engagement if you hire them. The lawyer's profile lists the consultation policy. Free does not always mean better — a fee-based consultation is sometimes the sign of a lawyer who treats their time, and yours, seriously.
What documents should I bring to the first meeting?
Bring every contract, notice, letter, filing, or written communication connected to the matter; a written timeline of events with dates; the names and contact details of every other party involved; and any deadlines or hearing dates you are already aware of. Even an incomplete file is more useful than a verbal summary alone.
Can I change lawyers if I am not happy with mine?
Yes. Clients can discharge their lawyer at any time, for any reason, by written notice. Your case file belongs to you and must be transferred to your new counsel. Any unpaid fees through the date of discharge remain owed; any unearned advance must be refunded. If you are mid-litigation, the court typically must approve the substitution, but approval is routine.
How long does an typical aviation matter take?
It depends almost entirely on whether the matter is transactional or contested. A transactional matter — a contract, a filing, a single-step transaction — can resolve in days to weeks. A contested matter — anything involving disputed facts, court intervention, or regulatory action — typically takes months at minimum, and complex cases can run multiple years. Your lawyer should give you a realistic outside estimate at intake.
Are aviation lawyer fees tax-deductible?
It depends on the nature of the matter and current tax law. Fees connected to producing or collecting taxable income, managing investment property, or operating a business are often deductible; fees for personal matters generally are not. Because rules change, confirm deductibility with a tax professional for the year in which the fees are paid.
What is the difference between aviation and the related practice areas?
Aviation overlaps with several adjacent areas — see the related-practice-area grid below for direct links. Choosing the right lawyer often means picking the one whose primary focus matches the heart of your problem, even if multiple labels could technically apply. When you are unsure, list your situation in your own words to two lawyers from neighbouring areas and ask which one of them is the better fit; honest lawyers will tell you.
Find aviation attorneys by state
Each state link below opens the aviation roster for that jurisdiction, with the local statute of limitations, court-system overview, and verified attorneys.
Aviation Law Firms
Main Law Firm
Winter Park
Walton Law Firm
San Marcos
Bruner Law Firm
Fort Walton Beach
J&Y Law Firm
Los Angeles
West Law Firm
Charleston
John T. Floyd Law Firm
Houston
Aviation by State
All states →Find aviation attorneys in every US state. Each state link opens a hub with verified attorneys, the state filing deadline, and a free attorney match.