Paul J. Hedlund | Plane Crash Attorney

May 13, 2008

PAUL J. HEDLUND
PHedlund@BaumHedlundLaw.com
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Aviation Accidents, Catastrophic Injury, Complex and Multi-District Litigation, Cruise Ship Accidents, Mass Disaster Litigation, Product Liability, Railroad Accidents, School Bus Accidents, Wrongful Death Law

Born:

Abington, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1946

Education:

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (B.S.M.E., 1968)
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (J.D., 1973)

Admissions:

California, 1973
U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1977
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 1978
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1991
District of Columbia, 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994
U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 1994
U.S. Supreme Court, 1997

Certified:

Patent Law, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1978

Member:

State Bar of California
District of Columbia Bar
The Bar Association of the District of Columbia
The American Association for Justice, formerly ATLA, Aviation Law Section
American Bar Association, The Forum on Air and Space Law, Litigation Section and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Staff Engineer, Southern California Edison, 1968-1970
Moot Court Judge, Pepperdine University School of Law
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL 817, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa, 1989
Trial Team Member, 1991-1992, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa: Member, 1989
Trial Counsel, United Airlines Crash, Sioux City, Iowa: Member, 1989
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-00-1343-CAL, Alaska Airlines Crash, off Point Mugu, California, 2000
Plaintiffs' Executive Committee, September 11, 2001 Tort Litigation

Lectures/Speeches:

"Mapping the Maze of Considerations in Disaster Litigation," Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, October 6, 1996
Lewis v. Sacramento County Re: High Speed Police Pursuits, University of San Diego School of Law, 1998
Panel Moderator: Aviation Issues in the New Millennium - Ramifications of the RAND Report ("Safety in the Skies - Personnel and Parties in NTSB Aviation Accident Investigations") presented by the Aviation and Space Law Committee of the American Bar Association Tort and Insurance Practice Section and the Aviation Litigation Committee of the ABA Section of Litigation, October 19, 2000
"Successful Handling of Wrongful Death Cases in California," Lorman Education Services, August 2001 and January 2002
"Plaintiff's Marketing Strategies In The New Millennium," ABA - American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Aviation and Space Law Committee Presents: On The Horizon Securing Safety, Insuring Fully and Litigating Fairly--Part II, October 26-27, 2006 Washington, D.C.

Author:

"Successful Handling of Wrongful Death Cases in California: The Law, The Traps, The Tricks", "Trying Your Case to Verdict or Settlement," "What Damages Do You Get?," "Quirks of Courts" Lorman Education Services, January, 2002
"Another Level of Justice: The Public Apology" Published in Andrews Aviation Litigation Reporter,Volume 24, Issue 5 / April 2006 by Thomson West and ATLA-Association of Trial Lawyers of America Aviation Law Section Newsletter Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 2006

Awards and Honors:

Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in the West
Aviation Counsel Magazine's List of Recommended High Flyers, believed by the International Air Transport Association's Legal Dept. to be one of the most elite lists of aviation law practitioners ever produced
National Air Disaster Foundation Safety Award, 2002
Southern California Super Lawyer 2005

Governmental Testimony :

California State Legislature, Seismic Safety Commission hearing re October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damage after the death of our client's son due to the collapse of a building known to be vulnerable to tremors during an earthquake, 1990
California State Assembly Hearing on California commuter rail safety as a result of the January 26, 2005 Metrolink derailment, July 20, 2005

Published Cases:

Curry v. Continental Airlines
513 F. 2d 691 (9th Cir. 1975)
Sigala (Rachelle) v. Anaheim City School District
Court of Appeal, Fourth District, 19 Cal.Rptr.2d 38, 15 Cal.App.4th 661, 82 Ed. Law Rep. 143 (1993)
Lewis v. Sacramento
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 98 F.3d 434, 65 USLW 2319, 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7501, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 12353 (1996)
County of Sacramento v. Lewis,
523, U.S. 833, 140 L. Ed. 2d 1043, 118 S. Ct. 1708 (1998)
Prudential Home Mort. Co. v. Superior Court
66 Cal.App.4th 1236 (1998)
In re Air Crash Off Point Mugu, California, on January 30, 2000
145 F.Supp.2d 1156 (N.D.Cal., 2001)
Butler v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
109 Cal.App.4th; 135 Cal. Rptr. 2d 762 (2003)

Practice Areas:

Aviation Accident Law
Catastrophic Injury
Class Actions
Complex and Multi-District Litigation
Mass Disaster Litigation
Personal Injury Law
Product Liability Law
Railroad Accident Litigation
School Bus Accidents
Truck Accidents (commercial)
Wrongful Death Law

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