Kreindler & Kreindler LLP

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Kreindler & Kreindler LLP is a U.S. law firm with offices in New York, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. The firm represents plaintiffs. Aviation law is one of the firm's practice areas. According to the New York Times, Lee Kreindler, a named partner of the firm, was "considered the founder of air disaster law." ^[1]

Firm practice areas also include maritime and general torts, business litigation matters, class-action securities cases and intellectual property matters.

1 Aviation Accident Law Treatise and New York Law of Torts Treatise
2 Professional Writings
3 Pan Am Flight 103
4 References
5 External Links
6 Internal Links

[edit] Aviation Accident Law Treatise and New York Law of Torts Treatise

Kreindler partners authored and edit Kreindler Aviation Accident Law (Revised 2007) published by Matthew Bender. Firm partners also authored and edit the New York Law of Torts, publised by West's Group, which is a leading treatise on New York tort law.

[edit] Professional Writings

The firm's attorneys regularly author articles on a variety of topics. The articles are posted on the firm's website.

[edit] Pan Am Flight 103

Aviation lawyers at Kreindler & Kreindler LLP represented victim families from the 1988 Lockerbie disaster and won liability and damages verdicts in cases against Pan American Airlines. In 1996, the firm sued Libya for sponsoring the terrorist attack and later settled the case against Libya for 2.7 billion dollars.