Lead trial counsel in multi-district wrongful death/personal injury/property damage litigation arising from crash of Pan Am 759 into a suburban neighborhood near New Orleans in 1982. Litigation involved approximately 200 suits and was litigated from 1982 through 1985. Conducted discovery in and prepared over sixty suits for trial. Tried over twenty-five Pan Am jury trials, including numerous wrongful death suits, psychic injury claims of neighborhood residents, personal injury claims and numerous house damage claims involving extensive engineering investigation and testimony. Significant appellate practice followed a number of the trials. See, e.g., Trivelloni-Lorenzi v. Pan American World Airways, 789 F.2d 1092 (5th Cir. 1986), 821 F.2d 1147 (5th Cir. 1987) (en banc), reversed in favor of Pan Am on Warsaw Convention issue, 109 S.Ct. 1928 (U.S. 1989), on remand, 883 F.2d 17 (5th Cir. 1989); Tudela v. Pan American World Airways, 764 F.2d 1082 (5th Cir. 1985); Turgeau v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 764 F.2d 1084 (5^th Cir. 1985); Leconte v. Pan American World Airways, 736 F.2d 1019 (5th Cir. 1984); Giancontieri v. Pan American World Airways, 767 F.2d 1151 (5th Cir. 1985); Brun-Jacob o v. Pan American World Airways, 847 F.2d 242, 11 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 585 (5th Cir. 1988); Bode v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 786 F.2d 669 (5th Cir. 1986); Savoie v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 742 F.2d 1451 (5th Cir. 1984); Eymard v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 795 F.2d 1230 (5th Cir. 1986).