Gary was one of the Founding Partners of the Firm and practiced product liability and aviation law for over 45 years, representing major companies from all over the world. Gary served as lead defense counsel for his clients in complex litigation arising from airline catastrophes, military crashes, and general aviation accidents.
His expertise in product liability played an instrumental role in the creation and judicial adoption of the Government Contractor Defense in military mishap litigation. One of his cases for a major defense contractor was the first to uphold this defense at the Federal Appellate Court level, and its three-pronged approach to this important defense was subsequently adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gary was also closely aligned for many years with the Aircraft Builders Council (“ABC”) Program, one of the longest-running aviation product insurance programs in the world. In addition to handling the defense of claims and litigation for the numerous diversified companies insured under this program, he was instrumental in providing claims prevention services to these companies, including product liability seminars. For companies manufacturing commercial product lines, these seminars also covered important subjects, including active product integrity programs, contractual reviews, document management, post-sale responsibilities and warnings, and other preventative measures. These seminars were conducted at each company’s facilities across the United States and abroad.
Gary also lectured on product liability and aviation law at legal and insurance conferences in the US and Europe and was the author of articles published in both legal and insurance journals and periodicals.
