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Also part of the firm's aviation litigation team is Dorothea M. Capone. Thea Capone, also a partner in the firm, has been part of Baumeister & Samuels since its inception and has worked with Mr. Baumeister for 25 years. She has been involved in every major case handled by the firm and is presently working on the World Trade Center September 11th Litigation and Pan Am Flight 103 Libya terrorist litigations, as well as several general aviation accidents. Ms. Capone represented the families of more than 50 individuals who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in hearings before the Special Master for the Federal Victims Compensation Fund, a legislative alternative to litigation, and has extensive experience interacting with and assisting family members involved in a catastrophic disaster working closely with each of the firm's clients.
Ms. Capone, admitted to both the New York and New Jersey bars, graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 1998 and authored "The Unique Causation Burdens Facing the Toxic Tort Plaintiff - An Argument for Application of the Substantial Factor Test," published in the New York Environmental Lawyer, Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 1997, for which she won a distinguished writing award. In addition, she has co-authored a number of papers with Mr. Baumeister in the field of aviation law including, "Criminalizing Aviation Misconduct: ValuJet and Beyond – The Trend and Issues Faced by the Aviation Community" delivered at Southern Methodist University School of Law Air Law Symposium in February 2001; "The Application of Current U.S. Product Liability Law to Commercial Aviation Disasters - In The End Does It Really Matter?" presented at the Aviation Product Liability Conference sponsored by Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert, London, England, May 2000; as well as "Issues Confronting Plaintiffs' Lawyers Handling Product Liability Actions Arising Out of Aviation Mass Disaster Actions Now and Into the Next Century" delivered at the Aviation Law/Insurance Symposium conducted by Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida in January 1999. Ms. Capone also authored "DOHSA – The Impact the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Decision and the Recent Amendment Will Have on the TWA Flight 800 Litigation" published in the Spring/Summer 2000 newsletter of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and is currently finalizing a case book chapter on passenger’s claims in aviation litigation to be published by the Carolina Academic Press in 2006. She is a member of the Southern Methodist University Air Law Symposium Board of Advisors and a member of the International Aviation Women’s Association. Additionally, Ms. Capone is a member of the Aviation and Space Law Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section, and the Aviation Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association as well as the Women's Advocate Subcommittee. She is also a member of the Aviation Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Aviation Law, and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, and recently served as a member of the Aeronautics Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. |
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