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Timothy M. Ravich
Associate
(305) 347-3123
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Aviation Law
Class Actions
Commercial Litigation
Employment Litigation
Product Liability
Professional Experience
Overview
Timothy M. Ravich is a Martindale-Hubbell® AV-rated lawyer and one of only thirty-four lawyers in the state recognized as a “Florida Bar Board Certified Aviation Lawyer.”
He represents individuals and corporations in the prosecution and defense of civil lawsuits in state and federal court in the areas of aviation law, business disputes, and products liability. He has first-chaired both bench and jury trials and served as an author and consulting legal editor of publications focused on substantive and procedural law.
Mr. Ravich also is a Supreme Court of Florida Certified Circuit Mediator.
Mr. Ravich was the President and CEO of the Dade County Bar Association (“DCBA”), the largest voluntary bar association in the State of Florida, from 2008-2009. The President of the Florida Bar appointed Mr. Ravich to serve as Chair of the Florida Bar’s Aviation Law Committee (2010-’11).
Florida Bar Board Certified Aviation Lawyer
As a Florida Bar Board Certified Aviation Lawyer, Mr. Ravich has achieved the highest level of recognition by the Florida Bar of the competency and experience of an attorney in that practice area. He focuses his practice on all facets of aviation litigation, federal aviation regulations and FAA enforcement actions, international treaties and conventions, airline labor law, space law, aircraft finance and registration, and airport operations and land use. Mr. Ravich is a member of the Florida Bar’s Aviation Law Certification Committee (2010-’12).
Bar Admissions
Florida Bar, 1999
Court Admissions
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida
Florida Supreme CourtActivities & Memberships
Pro bono work also is an important part of Mr. Ravich’s practice. He has served as a volunteer tutor of the Florida Bar Minority Bar Passage Program (2000-’05), and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
During his term as president, the Supreme Court of Florida awarded the Dade County Bar Association the “2009 Voluntary Bar Association Pro Bono Award.” Mr. Ravich also is a recipient of the “Put Something Back–Unfair Sales” Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Contribution.
Mr. Ravich serves as a member of the Florida Bar’s Eleventh Circuit Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Aventura-Sunny Isles Beach Chamber of Commerce.
He also serves as a member of the American Bar Association’s “Honorary Advisory Committee for the National Celebration of Pro Bono Week,” the Florida Bar’s Annual Convention Planning Committee (2009-’10), and the Dade County Bar Association’s Judicial Campaign Practices Committee (2009).
Honors & Awards
Mr. Ravich has been named “Top Up & Comer” by South Florida Legal Guide, one of the top “Up & Coming Attorneys in FLORIDA TREND’S Florida Legal Elite,” among the “Leading Lawyers” in the South Florida Business Journal, and has been elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor limited to one percent of all attorneys in the country.
In 2009, the University of Miami Law Alumni Association recognized Mr. Ravich with its Alumni Leadership Award, and in 2010, Florida International University’s College of Law awarded Mr. Ravich with its Torch Award.
Education
Mr. Ravich is a cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Business Law Review and a member of the Iron Arrow Honor Society. He also earned an M.B.A. in Aviation Policy and Planning from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Mr. Ravich has taught Aviation Law at the University of Miami School of Law since 2006, and has taught as an adjunct professor of trial and appellate advocacy and the “Legal Skills and Values” program at Florida International University’s College of Law since 2007.
Additionally, Mr. Ravich frequently participates as an organizer and panelist of continuing legal education programs, including the Florida Bar Aviation Law Committee’s Board Certification Review Course and, most recently, as part of the Florida Bar’s “Basic Trial Practice 2009” program. He also has served as a tutor for numerous law graduates as part of the local bar association’s “Minority Bar Passage Program.”
Publications
Mr. Ravich has written and spoken extensively about aviation issues in the United States and abroad, including:- AVIATION LAW AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH (forthcoming))
- “Should Bad Airline Service Be Illegal?,” (forthcoming))
- “2010: Space Law in the Sunshine State,” Florida Bar Journal (forthcoming 2010))
- “Sunset 2010: The Sunshine State, in Space,” Journal of Air Law & Commerce (forthcoming 2010))
- “Aviation Litigation and Mass Torts: A Crash Course,” Am. Bar Ass’n, Section of Litigation, Mass Torts (2010))
- “The Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into the National Airspace,” 85 North Dakota Law Review 597 (2009))
- “Mandatory Retirement for Airline Pilots: A Solution in Search of a Problem?,” Airliners (2008))
- “New York’s Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights: Air Transport Ass’n of America v. Cuomo, --- F. Supp. 2d ---- (N.D.N.Y. 2008),” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Claims against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq.,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Antitrust Issues and Predation in the Airline Industry,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Airline Liability arising under the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the ‘Montreal Convention’),” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Choice-of-Law Issues in Aviation Cases,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Airline ‘Code-Sharing’ Lawsuits,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “The Forum Non Conveniens Doctrine in Aviation Accident Litigation,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Death on the High Seas Act (‘DOHSA’),” 46 U.S.C. § 30301 et seq.,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “The Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41705 et seq.,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Alleged Racial Discrimination in Commercial Airline Transportation: Cerqueira v. American Airlines, --- F. 3d ---- (1st Cir. 2008),” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Airline ‘Bumping’ Claims,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Mandatory Airline Pilot Retirement: A Solution in Search of a Problem?,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, 49 U.S.C. § 40101 Note (“GARA”),” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Medical Certification for Pilots,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Defense and Appeal of FAA Certificate Actions,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “FAA Airmen Certificate and Civil Penalty Actions,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Admiralty Jurisdiction in Aviation Accident Litigation,” LexisNexis® Expert Commentary (2008))
- “Is Airline Passenger Profiling Necessary?,” 62 University of Miami Law Review 1 (2007))
- “Airline Alliances: Code-Sharing, not Blame-Sharing,” Airliners (2007))
- “Airline Passenger Profiling Systems after 9/11: Personal Privacy versus National Security,” 44 Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 127 (2005))
- “Deregulation of the Airline Computer Reservation Systems (CRS) Industry,” 69 Journal of Air Law and Commerce 387 (2004))
- “Without Reservations,” Daily Business Review (Special Report: Antitrust Issue, Aviation) (2004))
- “Antitrust and Online Airline Travel Distribution: Assessing Deregulation of the Computer Reservations Systems (CRS) Industry,” Aviation Advisor (2004))
- “Re-Regulation and Airline Passengers’ Rights,” 67 Journal of Air Law and Commerce 935 (2002))
- “The U.S. Airline Industry after September 11, 2001,” 8 International Travel Law Journal 254 (2001))
- “Flight or Fight: The Passengers’ Bill of Rights,” 8 International Travel Law Journal 102 (2001))
Presentations
- “Suspicious Package: TSA Worker Jailed after Junk Joke,” NBC Universal (2010)
- Program Chair, “The Montreal Convention: To Infinity, er, 100,000 SDRs and Beyond,” Florida Bar Aviation Law Certification Exam Review Course, Orlando, FL (2010)
- Chairman, “Open Skies for VLJs in Latin American and the Caribbean,” MIU Aviation Conference, Miami, FL (2008)
- “Flight Rights,” NBC Universal (2008)
- “China Blocks Takeoff of New Airlines,” Asia Times (2007), available at http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/1,1770,39370-1;57155-3,00.html
- “Airline Passengers’ Rights, Miami-Dade Consumer Sense,” Cable-TAP television (2007)
- “Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights: Is It Time to Re-Regulate the Airline Industry with New Customer Protections?,” National Public Radio (“The Conversation” KUOW), Seattle, WA (2007)
- Moderator, “Passenger Rights—Government vs. Industry,” Asociación Latinoamericana de Transporte Aéreo, ALTA Aviation Law Americas Conference for Legal and Finance Issues Facing the Aviation Industry, Miami, FL (2007)
- Speaker, “From Sputnik to Space Florida,” Florida Bar Aviation Law Certification Exam Review Course, Orlando, FL (2007)
- Speaker, “Why Airline Passenger Profiling is Necessary,” Florida Bar – Aviation Law Committee, Tampa, FL (2006)
- Panel Chair, “Surveillance Society: National Security vs. Personal Privacy,” 46th Transportation Research Forum, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (2005) (panelists: ACLU, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Heritage Foundation, and Transportation Security Administration)
- Speaker, “The U.S. Airline Industry: Regulatory Impulses and Passengers’ Rights,” Policy Law and Management Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (2002)