Galland, Kharasch, & Garfinkle, P.C. ("GKG") is a Washington, D.C.-based law firm. GKG's subsidiary, GKMG Consulting Inc., provides economic and strategic planning service to the airline and airport industries. GKG also maintains associated legal offices in Beijing, China. GKG and GKMG Consulting offer a unique combination of legal and consulting services in the aviation and airport fields. GKG and GKMG Consulting provide regulatory, transactional, tax and litigation services as well as financial and feasibility analysis, aeropolitical advice and international consulting services. GKG and GKMG Consulting's clientele includes international and domestic airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, and aviation-related associations.
GKG's greatest strength is its people. GKG's attorneys have decades of experience in aviation law as well as an intimate knowledge of the aviation industry. GKG's consultants have vast government and business experience, and are uniquely familiar with the financial, commercial, political, and regulatory aspects of the aviation industry. GKG lawyers and consultants work together across traditional disciplines to provide innovative and comprehensive solutions to complex client matters which often involve regulatory, commercial, transactional, financial and litigation issues.
GKG's Litigation Group handles judicial and administrative litigation involving a broad range of issues, including charter contracts and other commercial disputes, route transfer proceedings, license and certificate revocation proceedings, product liability and tort claims, construction arbitrations, intellectual property issues, charter escrow disputes, employment law and government contract actions. The Litigation Group also provides pre-litigation counseling on commercial and antitrust matters, including aircraft transactions and airline alliances.1
GKG's Litigation Group is unique because of its extensive familiarity with aviation issues coupled with the close working relationship between GKG litigators and GKG lawyers/consultants specializing in the aviation area.
Aviation law is constantly developing and changing. In an attempt to highlight some of the recent developments in this area of the law, GKG's Litigation Group has prepared the following outline of recent aviation and airport case law decisions and legislative and administrative actions. This outline is designed to cover a broad spectrum of issues and to be informative to participants in the aviation and airport industries. Issues that are common to all litigation -- such as jurisdictional and procedural issues -- are included in the outline as well as issues which are specific to the aviation industry -- such as air carrier liability and defenses and FAA Enforcement issues. We have set forth those subject areas relevant to these industries and we have sought to identify current trends, issues and conflicts in the law that will impact upon decision makers.
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