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About Jamie Lebovitz

Jamie R. Lebovitz is a senior partner at Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy with more than 35 years of experience as a trial attorney. He concentrates his practice on transportation disasters, particularly aviation, railroad, and trucking accidents, and has secured numerous multimillion-dollar settlements and jury verdicts in cases against commercial airlines, aircraft manufacturers, trucking companies, railroads, and the federal government. Jamie has been appointed by courts as a member of the Lead Trial Counsel Team and the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in numerous air crash cases. He holds the AV Preeminent Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer in aviation law and as one of the Best Lawyers in America for aviation law by U.S. News and World Report.

Proven verdicts and settlements

Confidential (aggregate >$300 million total litigation)Settlement

Jamie Lebovitz served on the federal MDL Plaintiff's Steering Committee for the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 disaster, representing 18 families in confidential individual settlements as part of a broader litigation that recovered more than $300 million for surviving relatives of the 88 people killed.

U.S. District Court, N.D. California (MDL-00-1343) · 2003Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
~$7 millionSettlement

Jamie Lebovitz threatened to take Boeing to trial in the Flight 427 wrongful-death MDL and, on the scheduled trial date, accepted a settlement of approximately $7 million for his client's family, a figure reported as far above what most other victims' families received.

U.S. District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh MDL) · 1997Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
J.D., 1982
Cleveland State University
Undergraduate, 1979

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio, admitted 1982

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