Author Biography: Preparing for Trial in Federal Court

Preparing for Trial in Federal Court
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Phillip J. Kolczynski Phillip J. Kolczynski manages his own law firm in Southern California near the John Wayne Orange County airport. He practices in federal and state courts and specializes in aviation, product liability and other complex civil litigation involving technical and scientific issues. He is licensed to practice in California, Ohio and the District of Columbia, and is admitted before many federal district and circuit courts. Mr. Kolczynski is a former trial attorney in the Aviation-Admiralty Unit of the Torts Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C. and the Office of the Chief Counsel, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, D.C. He has been an associate and partner in large law firms in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles and, prior to law school, was a U.S. Marine Corps Captain and F-4 Phantom pilot. The author taught federal civil trial tactics and techniques at the U.S. Attorney General’s Civil Trial Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. and has appeared as lead trial counsel in over 30 different federal courts throughout the United States for purposes of trial, pre-trial conferences, summary judgments and various pre-trial and post-trial motions. He is the former Chair of an ABA National Institute on Litigation in Washington, D.C. and is the Founder of the Annual Southwest Regional Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Orange County and San Diego Bar Associations. Phillip Kolczynski received his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, where he was Notes Editor of the Journal of International Law. He received his undergraduate education at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he held a full Navy ROTC scholarship. Mr. Kolczynski has published numerous law review and professional journal articles on federal civil litigation and trial practice and is a frequent lecturer on the procedural and substantive areas in which he specializes. E-mail - Phil@aviationlawcorp.com