Firm: Bingham McCutchen
Practice Areas: Tax
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Firm: Holland & Knight LLP
Practice Areas: Aviation, Transportation, Federal Regulation
Gary Halbert is a partner in Holland & Knight’s New York Litigation Practice Group, practicing out of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Halbert is a former U.S. Air Force instructor pilot, military attorney and crisis communications director, and more recently, the General Counsel to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). His practice areas include NTSB major accident investigations, regulatory matters for aviation and other transportation modes, transportation accident claims, aviation law, transportation mass-disaster law, claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and other product and professional services liability matters.. Immediately prior to entering private practice, Mr. Halbert served as the General Counsel to the National Transportation Safety Board, acting as the senior legal advisor to the Chairman of the Board and overseeing the provision of legal services to the agency. His office provided legal support for accident investigations in all modes of transportation, procurement and leasing activity, fiscal law matters, and the agency’s human resources function, and oversaw the board’s review on appeal of enforcement proceedings undertaken by aviation and marine regulatory agencies. Mr. Halbert also supervised the NTSB’s administrative and civil litigation, legislative drafting and ethics programs. He drafted two of the agency’s recent reauthorization requests to Congress.. Mr. Halbert joined the NTSB after retiring in the grade of Colonel from the United States Air Force, where his diverse operational and staff assignments included service as a military instructor pilot in jet aircraft, commander of student classes going through pilot training, executive officer to a wing commander, and as a judge advocate in progressively responsible positions. His military legal assignments embraced both civil and criminal law functions, including installation claims officer, hospital attorney and criminal prosecution roles. Mr. Halbert handled Federal Tort Claims Act claims for alleged medical malpractice of almost $120 million during his time as legal counsel for a large military hospital, and in a subsequent senior counsel role, devised a strategy that achieved completion of an $18 million military family housing project at no additional cost to the Air Force, after the prime contractor defaulted. Mr. Halbert served as the senior legal officer at two installations, including one of the Air Force’s larger bases, and supervised 14 legal offices with 180 attorneys and staff for an overseas command responsible for 21 installations in seven European countries. At Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon, he oversaw the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s attorney assignments and human resources division for an attorney workforce of over 1,300 attorneys. He also served as the Executive Officer to the Judge Advocate General. In his final Air Force assignment, he served as the director of the Air Force’s strategic and crisis communications office.. Mr. Halbert has accumulated approximately 1,500 flight hours in military jet aircraft, single engine general aviation aircraft and sailplanes.. He is a frequent speaker on interacting with the NTSB investigation process following a major transportation accident, whether it’s an aviation, railroad, pipeline, hazardous materials, marine or highway accident. He is an expert on the NTSB statutory and regulatory structure and investigative process, having supported every major investigation undertaken by the NTSB over his five-year tenure as General Counsel.
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Firm: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property, Licensing, Licensing, Licensing, Licensing, Licensing, Licensing
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Practice Areas: Business, Employee Benefits, Employment & Labor
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Firm: BINGHAM
Practice Areas: Patent Application
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Firm: Mason Lietz & Klinger LLP
Practice Areas: Class Action, Consumer Protection
Gary Mason is a nationally recognized leader of the class action bar. Focusing on consumer class actions and mass torts, Gary has recovered more than $1.5 billion in the 22 years he has represented plaintiffs.. Gary attended Brown University in Rhode Island where he graduated Magna Cum Laude before attending law school at Duke University School of Law. During his studies in law school, Gary was the editor of the school’s law review, Law & Contemporary Problems. Gary also clerked for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld, U.S. District Court Judge, in Anchorage, Alaska.. After law school, Gary joined Skadden Arps, one of the leading law firms in the world. Gary then joined Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC as a partner where he focused his practice on class action litigations.. With his broad experience, Gary is nationally known for representing consumers in class actions involving a wide range of defective products, including Chinese drywall, fire retardant plywood, polybutylene pipe, high-temperature plastic venting, hardboard siding, pharmaceutical products, consumer electronics and automobiles.
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Firm: DLA Piper US LLP
1200 Nineteenth Street Northwest , Washington , District Of Columbia 20036
Practice Areas: Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Oil & Gas, Government
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Latham Watkins LLP 555 Eleventh St Ste 1000 , Washington , District Of Columbia 20004
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2101 L St NW Ste 1000 , Washington , District Of Columbia 20037
Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Law
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Firm: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property
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Firm: Hogan Lovells
Practice Areas: Government, Agriculture, Administrative Law
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Firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affilites
Practice Areas: International Law
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Practice Areas: Criminal Defense
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Practice Areas: Government
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Firm: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property
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Firm: Dravid, Aditi Attorney
Practice Areas: Personal Injury
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Firm: BINGHAM
2020 K Street NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20006
Practice Areas: Corporate & Incorporation
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Firm: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
Practice Areas: Arbitration
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Firm: Latham & Watkins LLP
Practice Areas: International Law
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Firm: Pearson and Pearson, P.C.
Practice Areas: General Practice
Contact: 540-347-2660