Aviation and Pilot Operations Expert Witness | Pennsylvania
Aviation and Pilot Operations | E-695222
Expert Qualifications
This highly-qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in aviation, as well as a practicing attorney. In addition to being a licensed attorney, he has a private pilot's license and a commercial pilot's license. He earned his BAS in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from Pennsylvania State University. He has worked for several law firms throughout his career and, during his time with the DOJ as both an assistant United States attorney and a special assistant United States attorney, this expert worked on numerous aviation-related prosecutions involving airlines and the FAA. He has about 5,000 hours of experience in all types of weather and is familiar with the practices, procedures, operations, issues, and challenges facing pilots. For the last 27 years, he has owned, maintained, and operated systems-based cabin-class piston and turbo-prop aircraft, including a 1977 Piper Turbo Arrow III (PA-28-201RT), a 1969 Beechcraft (Raytheon) Duke (BE60), and, most recently, a 1979 Piper Cheyenne I (PAY1). Currently, this expert is the managing partner of the Philadelphia office for a law firm in Pennsylvania.
Bio Snapshot
Location: PA
BAS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
JD, Pennsylvania State University
Licensed, Private Pilot
Licensed, Commercial Pilot
Licensed, Attorney
Former, Senior Associate, Woodcock Washburn Kurtz Mackiewicz & Norris
Former, Partner, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott
Former, Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Eastern District of Pennyslvania
Former, Special Assistant United States Attorney, United States Department of Justice
Former, Founding Partner, McShea\Tecce
Former, Partner, Panitch Scwarze Belisario & Nadel
Current, Managing Partner, a law firm in PA
