Bruce L. Lampert

Bruce Lampert is a partner at Katzman, Lampert & Stoll, where his practice is devoted to plaintiff-side aviation accident litigation. He holds a Commercial Pilot certificate issued by the FAA (1982), with single-engine airplane and instrument airplane ratings. (Source: FAA Airman Certification registry.)

Bruce earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Denver College of Law in 1979, where he received the American Jurisprudence Prize in Contracts and the American Law Book Prize, and served as a writer for the Denver Law Journal. After graduation he clerked for the Honorable Hatfield O. Chilson, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. Before law school, he attended Naval Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, and served as an intelligence officer with a Navy F-4 squadron aboard the U.S.S. Coral Sea (CVA-43).

Bruce’s aviation litigation record spans more than three decades and the firm’s successive iterations. With Schaden, Lampert & Lampert, he was counsel of record for the plaintiffs-appellants in Sewell v. Public Service Co. of Colorado, a wrongful death action arising from a private aircraft’s collision with power transmission lines, in which the Colorado Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment that had been entered against his clients. With Schaden, Katzman, Lampert & McClune, he was on the briefs for the decedents’ families in Old Republic Insurance Co. v. Durango Air Service, Inc., litigation arising from a fatal aircraft crash, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed insurance-coverage rulings in the families’ favor. With Katzman, Lampert & McClune, he was counsel of record for the plaintiff in Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive Corp., aviation product liability litigation that produced a significant 2016 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling on federal field preemption. (Public record — Sewell v. Public Service Co. of Colorado, 832 P.2d 994 (Colo. App. 1991); Old Republic Ins. Co. v. Durango Air Service, Inc., 292 F.3d 1216 (10th Cir. 2002); Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive Corp., 822 F.3d 680 (3d Cir. 2016).)

His work also includes commercial airline accident litigation. Bruce represented the flight crew of Continental Airlines Flight 1404, the Boeing 737 that departed the runway during takeoff at Denver International Airport in December 2008, in litigation that included claims against the Federal Aviation Administration arising from air traffic control during hazardous crosswinds and that resolved in settlements. (Reported by CBS Colorado and the Associated Press, 2013.) His firm also represented victims and families in the litigation arising from the 1987 crash of Continental Flight 1713 at Denver. (Continental 1713 representation reported in contemporaneous press, 1989; underlying litigation reported at In re Air Crash Disaster at Stapleton Int’l, 720 F. Supp. 1433 & 1445 (D. Colo. 1988).)

Bruce is a member of the American Association for Justice and has served on the governing board of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He lectures and has written on aviation law, mass-disaster litigation, and complex product liability. He is licensed to practice in Colorado and Michigan, in state and federal court.

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He represents families in plane crash wrongful death cases nationwide.

You may email Mr. Lampert at blampert@klm-law.com or use our contact form.

Aviation Litigation Focus

Bruce’s experience in aviation accident litigation includes major air disaster cases, commercial aircraft accidents, product liability claims, and complex multi-party litigation involving aircraft operations and aviation safety issues.

• Representation of victims in major commercial aviation disasters
• Litigation arising from high-profile aircraft accidents worldwide
• Aircraft product liability and structural failure cases
• Commercial airline accident litigation
• Mass-disaster and multi-party aviation litigation
• Aviation safety and accident investigation-related cases
• Trial advocacy in complex aviation cases
• Lecturing and writing on aviation law and litigation

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