Law Office of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman

For more than 20 years, Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman has been representing aviation accident victims in some of the worst aviation disasters in our history. The firm’s aviation accident attorneys have litigated the cases of more than 540 passengers, ground victims and crew for aviation personal injury or wrongful death claims across the United States and around the world.

Ronald L. M. Goldman is a New York native, pilot and a veteran trial lawyer based in Los Angeles. He is board certified as a civil trial lawyer, certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, with 37 years of experience handling airline disasters. He is a senior partner and lead trial counsel for the firm.

Ron created and taught the course on Aviation Accident Law at Pepperdine School of Law where he worked as an adjunct law professor for 21 years. He has handled a wide variety of sophisticated litigation, at both the trial and appellate levels including personal injury, product liability, domestic and foreign airline and general aviation cases, etc. He has represented more than a thousand clients and has been lead counsel in hundreds of litigated cases including aviation.

Among his trials are leading aviation and product liability cases which resulted in aviation law changes and improvements in aviation safety. He has years of experience and expertise, and an understanding of the issues and the law which uniquely affect each aviation case the firm takes on.  His wide breadth of experience as a trial lawyer, appellate attorney, professor, expert witness, and neutral hearing officer are very much appreciated by the clients he represents.

Ron was the lead negotiator in one of Baum Hedlund's most significant aviation litigation achievements when he won, as part of the settlement agreement from the January 8, 2003 Air Midwest Flight 5481 crash in Charlotte, NC, the agreement of the airline and maintenance company, in an organized ceremony, to deliver an unprecedented official public apology to the families for the crash. He also served on the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee for the September 11, 2001 aviation tort litigation.

John A. Greaves  is a pilot and seasoned airline accident lawyer who has represented hundreds of airline accident victims in more than 35 airline disasters. He was also on the team that negotiated the Air Midwest Flight 5481 public apology and settlement. He has been part of Baum Hedlund’s aviation team since joining the firm in the early 1990s. He works out of their Los Angeles office.

As an airline transport pilot and a former Captain for Comair, John has flown over 10,000 hours total flight time since 1966 and over 3,000 hours as a Captain in Part 121 and Part 135 scheduled airline operations.

In the capacity of licensed pilot for more than 40 years, John spent five years as a pilot in sch

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