Posted for "George Braly" <gwbraly@gami.com>:

 Most of the lawyers doing major aviation cases hold commercial or ATP
certificates,  several with A & P tickets,  and many with engineering degrees.
  Many are ex- military and/or ex airline.

 Your description of them as having “limited knowledge or understanding”   is
characteristic of the near universal  mis-understanding of  what the real
world of this type of litigation is like - - rather than what you imagine.

 I recently served as a  3rd arbiter in a complex aviation case.   The three
arbiters had, between them,  a few tens of thousands of hours scattered among
a few dozen complex aircraft types,  a hundred combat missions,  an
engineering degree or two,  75 years of trying lawsuits to jurors,  and
several years of  service on the bench as a judge.

 I don’t think the result  was a lot different than it would have been in
front of a jury.

 Regards,  George

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 Let's don't forget the litigating attorneys with limited knowledge or
understanding orchestrating this symphony to its crescendo'd conclusion
(Movement #1 anyway) Remaining parts to be continued in the form of appeals.
--- more money for the liti-gators (not to be confused with their reptilian
first cousins residing in the FL swamplands.).
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