Transportation Lawyers
7,084 verified transportation attorneys across the United States. Find experienced Transportation counsel to evaluate your case, explain your options, and represent you through every stage of the legal process.
Joseph P. Villanueva is a lawyer practicing traffic violations, speeding tickets, moving violations and 5 other areas of law.
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Ralph Gerard Breaux is a lawyer practicing transportation, insurance coverage and defense, general civil litigation and 7 other areas of law. Ralph re...
John R Gorey is a lawyer practicing personal injury, medical negligence, construction liability and 6 other areas of law. John received a B.A. degree ...
Jennifer J. Sackett Pohlenz focuses her practice on commercial development, clean air and water concerns, renewable energy projects, and waste managem...
Andrew’s practice focuses on construction defect, transportation, real estate professional liability and general liability matters. For over a decade ...
Mr Grant Daniel Waterkotte is a lawyer practicing civil and trial litigation, employment and labor, personal injury and 9 other areas of law. Grant re...
Edward Joy Briscoe is a lawyer practicing class action, products liability & toxic torts, environmental & land use law and 2 other areas of law. Edwar...
Frederick Mark Heiser is a lawyer practicing commercial litigation, general liability, entertainment & sport venues and 6 other areas of law. Frederic...
Jill Ann Herman is a lawyer practicing appellate, commercial and business litigation, construction and 15 other areas of law. Jill received a B.S. deg...
Druit G. Gremillion is a lawyer practicing civil rights litigation and governmental entity defense, casualty litigation, medical malpractice and 2 oth...
Ryan Rivas is Managing Partner at Hall Booth Smith’s Tampa, Florida, office. He has over a decade of legal experience and specializes in defending hig...
Jason H. Klein is a partner in WSHB’s Phoenix office.
Stephen Christopher Mazzara is a lawyer practicing employment and labor, osha and worksite safety, management and professional liability and 6 other a...
Michael Shelley is a lawyer practicing complex commercial litigation, transportation, professional liability defense and 11 other areas of law. Michae...
Phil Tiberi is a partner who represents clients throughout California and Nevada. Since 1996, he has built an extensive trial record across a broad sp...
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Katherine Alanna O'Donniley is a lawyer practicing administrative, business, election, campaign and political and 13 other areas of law. Katherine rec...
Adam Ryan Rosenthal is a lawyer practicing labor and employment, labor and employment counseling, unfair competition and trade secrets and 11 other ar...
David Mason Murphy is a lawyer practicing appeals, transportation, customs and 5 other areas of law. David received a B.A. degree from Fordham Univers...
Mr. Gerald Kevin Sanchez is a lawyer practicing governmental affairs, transportation, ethics & accountability and 2 other areas of law.
Christopher E Carey is a lawyer practicing litigation, admiralty, insurance defense and 6 other areas of law. Christopher received a B.A. degree from ...
Paul J Politz is a lawyer practicing construction litigation, products liability, toxic torts and 5 other areas of law. Paul received a B.A. degree fr...
Ms. Maryalyce Cox is a lawyer practicing insurance defense, labor and employment, personal injury defense and 8 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...
Michael C Luquet is a lawyer practicing healthcare, transportation, medical malpractice and 1 other area of law. Michael received a B.A. degree from U...
For the last 24 years, Trey has maintained a wide-ranging civil litigation practice in the New Orleans metropolitan area. He received an AV-Preeminent...
Jeffrey K. Van Etten joined the firm in 1989 and became a member in 1992.
Mr. Bradley Ryan Coppedge is a lawyer practicing business transactions, corporate and partnership, tax and 14 other areas of law.
Bron Erik D'Angelo is a lawyer practicing business litigation, civil and trial litigation, personal injury and 3 other areas of law. Bron received a B...
Mr. Edward Eugene Coleman III is a lawyer practicing construction & development, defective and dangerous products, insurance fraud and 2 other areas o...
Michael Trevor Howard is a lawyer practicing alcoholic beverage law, dram shop liability, liquor liability and 81 other areas of law. Michael received...
Jason H Strong is a lawyer practicing general litigation, transportation, personal injury. Jason received a B.A. degree from University of Mississippi...
Steven J. Shanker is a lawyer practicing transportation, workers compensation, employment & labor and 1 other area of law.
Mr. Afshin Pishevar is a lawyer practicing business, corporate and transportation law, criminal law & practice and 15 other areas of law.
Mr. Edgar Meador Elliott IV is a lawyer practicing class action defense, insurance litigation, general liability defense and 9 other areas of law.
Hailey M. Hopper is a lawyer practicing construction law, contracts, insurance defense and 8 other areas of law.
Crystal Valencia focuses her practice on casualty litigation and product liability defense. She has over 12 years of defense litigation experience wor...
LaShawnda K. Jackson is a lawyer practicing casualty litigation, product liability, trucking and 3 other areas of law.
Debra Grassgreen, resident in the firm’s San Francisco office, has significant experience representing debtors, trustees, and creditors’ committees in...
Julie is a senior associate in GrayRobinson's Orlando office in the Health Care and Litigation Practice Groups. She concentrates her practice in medic...
Shawn Edward Arnold is a lawyer practicing construction, general liability, premises liability and 1 other area of law. Shawn received a B.A. degree f...
John Charles Canoni is a lawyer practicing business litigation, product liability, banking finance and 3 other areas of law. John received a B.A. degr...
John Nicholas Tasolides is a lawyer practicing criminal defense, transportation, white collar crime and 39 other areas of law. John received a B.A. de...
Mr Michael W Halvorson is a lawyer practicing automobile liability defense, dram shop and social host liability, insurance and 11 other areas of law. ...
Carlos Javier Chardon is a lawyer practicing civil litigation, insurance defense, products liability and 9 other areas of law. Carlos received a B.S.M...
Boyden James Pantone is a lawyer practicing personal injury, workers compensation, aviation and aerospace and 180 other areas of law. Boyden received ...
Matthew Elder Rutherford, Jr. is a lawyer practicing civil practice, contracts, corporate law and 7 other areas of law. Matthew received a B.A. degree...
Mr. Todd Andrew Croftchik is a lawyer practicing litigation/trial advocacy/advocacy, personal injury, product liability and 4 other areas of law.
William G. McCormick is a lawyer practicing probate & trust, banking & finance, bankruptcy & creditors' rights and 17 other areas of law.
Andrew Jonathan Rochen is a lawyer practicing alternative dispute resolution, civil litigation, civil rights litigation and 24 other areas of law. And...
Jennifer A Rogers is a lawyer practicing employment and labor, employment and labor litigation, labor management relations and 8 other areas of law. J...
Mr. Lea Richmond IV is a lawyer practicing personal injury, health care, nursing and pharmacy, professional liability and 2 other areas of law.
Michael V. DeSantis has 30 years of litigation and trial experience and achieved an “AV Preeminent Rating”, which is the highest possible rating, in b...
Robert P Thompson is a lawyer practicing worker's compensation, transportation, trucking and 11 other areas of law. Robert received a B.S. degree from...
Mr. William Tracy Freeman is a lawyer practicing admiralty & marine, energy, general liability & casualty and 14 other areas of law.
Paul Everette Tennison is a lawyer practicing aging services, appellate, arbitration & mediation and 9 other areas of law. Paul received a B.S. degree...
Caryn Siperstein is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, litigation, civil trial and 42 other areas of law. Caryn received a degree from Brooklyn, ...
David Howard Abrams is a lawyer practicing probate & trust, trusts and estates, advocacy and 29 other areas of law. David received a degree from Georg...
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What is Transportation?
Transportation is the branch of law that governs the rights, obligations, and disputes that arise within its subject matter. In the United States, transportation 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 transportation 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, Transportation 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 Transportation 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 7,084 verified transportation 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 Alabama.
When do you need a Transportation attorney?
Most people contact a transportation 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 transportation representation.
Once your signature is on a contract, settlement, lease, or release, your bargaining leverage drops sharply. A short pre-signature review by a transportation 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 7,084 transportation attorneys listed above to book a paid consultation directly.
How to choose a Transportation attorney
The single biggest factor in choosing a transportation lawyer is fit with your specific matter. A lawyer with twenty years of transportation 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 a Transportation lawyer cost?
Legal fees in the United States are not regulated by a uniform schedule, so what you pay a transportation 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 transportation 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 transportation 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 transportation 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 transportation
How quickly can a transportation 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 transportation 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 transportation 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 a typical transportation 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 transportation 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 transportation and the related practice areas?
Transportation 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 transportation attorneys by state
Each state link below opens the transportation roster for that jurisdiction, with the local statute of limitations, court-system overview, and verified attorneys.
Transportation 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
Transportation by State
All states →Find transportation attorneys in every US state. Each state link opens a hub with verified attorneys, the state filing deadline, and a free attorney match.