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Why Baum Hedlund
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC has been litigating commercial aviation cases for over two decades and has represented the victims of 75 aviation disasters of which 57 were airline mishaps. We’ve taken part in 17 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committees in mass tort litigation, of which 11 involved major airline accidents.
Our senior partners always prepare and oversee each case, working with our other attorneys as a team to collaborate on every case. Two of our attorneys are actually pilots. One of them in fact is a transport-rated airline pilot and previous Comair captain. Their experience and technical expertise is always used to analyze aviation accidents and their knowledge is always available to our clients.
Ron Goldman is an aviation attorney and is our aviation team’s lead trial attorney at Baum Hedlund. He has been practicing law for over 40 years and has been a licensed private pilot since 1980. Ron has litigated numerous types of sophisticated cases at the levels of trial and appellate. These cases include personal injury, wrongful death, product liability and general aviation cases both foreign and domestic. Ron is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate named by the National Board of Trial Advocates and is Board Certified. He also serves as an adjunct Professor at Pepperdine School of Law in an Aviation Accident Law course that he developed 21 years ago.
In Ron’s first aviation safety case he represented the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization throughout a “sick-out” incident in 1969. His defense of the air traffic controllers’ concerns in aviation safety helped to improve the working environment where controllers were having to deal with unhealthy stress levels under their employment conditions. He went on to seek more aviation safety improvements while litigating a British European Airways Hawker Siddeley Aviation passenger plane crash outside of London in 1972 and has focused on aviation accident cases ever since. Ron has also served as a judge pro tem, mediator and neutral arbitrator throughout his career.
Ron recently represented the families of three firefighters in the wrongful death trial of a Bell helicopter crash. As a condition of the settlement agreement, the companies at fault agreed to apologize publicly to the families of the victims of the 1/8/2003 Air Midwest Flight 5481 crash in Charlotte, NC. The substantial monetary settlement was not as important to our clients as the accepted responsibly and apology for the negligence that caused the crash. The apology was an acceptable alternative of going to trial. The trial counselor and lead negotiator in this Baum Hedlund settlement was aviation lawyer Ronald L. M. Goldman. Also working on that case was Michael Baum, Paul Hedlund and John Greaves.
Ron is a member of many notable associations including the American Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, International Bar Association, World Jurist Association, Lawyers Professional Liability Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.