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Transportation

National trial counsel for complex transportation and logistics claims.

Practice Area Introduction

When serious incidents result in personal injury or property damage, or disrupt the movement of people and freight, transportation companies turn to our seasoned trial lawyers who understand rail, trucking and aviation operations, the governing regulatory schemes, and the business realities behind every claim.

Our Expertise

The Transportation Practice Group defends the full spectrum of railroad, trucking and airline transportation matters for a wide range of national and local clients, including major national and short line railroads, passenger airlines and regional and long-haul trucking companies. The team regularly defends personal injury and wrongful death actions, property and casualty claims, grade crossing injuries and fatalities, derailments, switch and signal failures, toxic tort claims, and related commercial disputes.

Our lawyers are trial counsel in high exposure transportation cases across Virginia and throughout the country, drawing on deep experience with complex products liability, catastrophic loss and mass tort litigation. They have tried and managed cases involving serious bodily injury, traumatic brain injury, paraplegia and quadriplegia, fire and explosion losses, drownings and other catastrophic events, often in matters where the company’s brand and business model are at stake.

Our work routinely requires coordinating multi-jurisdiction dockets, working with engineering, medical and accident reconstruction experts, and litigating issues of preemption, allocation of fault and risk transfer for rail carriers, motor carriers, airlines and their insurers.

Our Approach

We start at the scene and carry through to verdict. When a serious accident occurs, our transportation lawyers are available around the clock to coordinate rapid response, engage investigators and experts, preserve critical evidence and guide company personnel through the first hours and days after an event.

We understand that early decisions can affect future litigation, regulatory exposure and media attention, and design response plans that align with company protocol, insurer expectations and long-term litigation strategy.

In ongoing litigation, the team brings a disciplined, trial ready mindset to every case. We conduct rigorous liability and damages evaluations, develop fact and expert testimony grounded in the engineering and operational realities of rail, roadway and aviation systems, and make strategic use of dispositive motions, Daubert challenges and targeted discovery to narrow issues and eliminate unmeritorious claims. We are equally comfortable trying cases to verdict in state and federal courts across the country or positioning matters for efficient resolution when that better serves the client’s business objectives.

Clients benefit from our ability to assemble cross-disciplinary teams that bring in products liability, catastrophic loss, OSHA and VOSH defense, environmental and insurance coverage experience when needed, while still providing a single point of accountability for the overall matter.

How We’re Different

National trial depth, industry insight

Clients trust a team pairing deep transportation insight with national coordinating counsel experience managing complex, multijurisdictional litigation dockets.

Cost-Conscious Strategy, High-Value Results

We are highly responsive, cost conscious and relentlessly focused on achieving outcomes that protect both the balance sheet and the long-term reputation of the client.

Rail Litigation and Regulatory Fluency

We defend FELA and crossing cases, navigate federal preemption issues, and guide USDOT and VDOT compliance and enforcement.

Coordinated, Cross-disciplinary Defense Teams

Clients benefit from integrated teams spanning products liability, catastrophic loss, workplace safety, environmental, and coverage issues under a single accountable lead.

Trial-ready and Resolution-minded

We are equally prepared to try cases nationwide or structure efficient resolutions when that better serves the client’s business objectives.

How We’re Different

National trial depth, industry insight

Clients trust a team pairing deep transportation insight with national coordinating counsel experience managing complex, multijurisdictional litigation dockets.

Cost-Conscious Strategy, High-Value Results

We are highly responsive, cost conscious and relentlessly focused on achieving outcomes that protect both the balance sheet and the long-term reputation of the client.

Rail Litigation and Regulatory Fluency

We defend FELA and crossing cases, navigate federal preemption issues, and guide USDOT and VDOT compliance and enforcement.

Coordinated, Cross-disciplinary Defense Teams

Clients benefit from integrated teams spanning products liability, catastrophic loss, workplace safety, environmental, and coverage issues under a single accountable lead.

Trial-ready and Resolution-minded

We are equally prepared to try cases nationwide or structure efficient resolutions when that better serves the client’s business objectives.

Key Takeaway

A nationally deployed, trial-tested transportation defense team that pairs rapid incident response with sophisticated, cost-effective strategies for high exposure rail, trucking and aviation claims.

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