Mr. Ravich teaches Aviation Law at the University of Miami School of Law, and is an adjunct professor of trial and appellate advocacy at Florida International University’s College of Law.  Mr. Ravich is a cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Business Law Review and a member of the Iron Arrow Honor Society.

Florida Bar Board Certified Aviation Lawyer

Having earned his Masters in Business Administration in Aviation Policy and Planning from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Mr. Ravich also is a Florida Bar Board Certified Aviation Lawyer.  Certification is the highest level of recognition by the Florida Bar of the competency and experience of an attorney in an area of the law.  Only certified attorneys are allowed to identify themselves as “Florida Bar Board Certified,” as a “specialist,” or as an “expert.”

As one of only 34 Board Certified Aviation Lawyers in Florida, Mr. Ravich’s practice focuses 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 was appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the Florida Bar’s Aviation Law Committee (2009-’10), was elected as the Second Vice President of the Greater Miami Aviation Association (2009-’10), and serves as an “Expert Legal Commentator” for Matthew Bender/LexisNexis in the area of aviation law.

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 Court

Activities & Memberships

       Pro bono work 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 as a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. (2004-’08).  He is a recipient of the “Put Something Back – Unfair Sales” Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Contribution.  Additionally, 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 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 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 among the Rising Stars by “Florida Super Lawyers,” “Top Up & Comer” by South Florida Legal Guide, one of the top “Up & Coming Attorneys in Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite,” and among the “Leading Lawyers” in the South Florida Business Journal. He also has been elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor limited to one percent of all attorneys in the country.

Education

J.D., University of Miami School of Law, cum laude
M.B.A., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universtity

Publications

• AVIATION LAW AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH (forthcoming 2010)
• “Should Bad Airline Service Be Illegal?,” (forthcoming 2010)
• “Assessing ‘Open Skies’ and International Airline Cabotage,” (forthcoming 2009)
• “Mandatory Retirement for Airline Pilots: A Solution in Search of a Problem?,” Airliners (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

• 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)