Sterns & Walker is a small, highly specialized plaintiff's litigation referral firm with over forty years' experience, concentrating primarily on major aviation, products liability and other major catastrophic claims, both nationally and overseas, with affiliations in many countries. The firm has been involved in many general aviation and helicopter cases, as well as most of the major air crash carrier cases worldwide for many years, with experience in the areas of Warsaw Convention litigation, Forum Non Conveniens and choice of law. The firm also has acted for the families of many pilots and crew in some major crashes. The firm works with participating other counsel. Paris Air Disaster, American Airlines DC-10 Chicago, PSA San Diego Midair collision, Sioux City DC-10, Tenerife, Lockerbie Pan Am, Lauda Air Thailand, Swissair 111, Korea 801 at Guam, Alaska Air 261 and Singapore 006, Taiwan are among the better known cases in which the firm has been involved. The firm also represents numerous victims of the Kenya and Tanzania U.S. Embassy bombing attacks in 1998 and is reviewing cases arising out of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, and applicability of the federal compensation legislation and special master program. The firm has been recognized for high professional legal standards and ethics in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, 86th ed. The firm successfully handled Olympic Airways v. Husain, 540 U.S. 644 (2006); 124 S. Ct. 1221 (2004); 157 L. Ed. 2d 1146, a landmark case for passenger rights in the United States Supreme Court.

All cases handled on a fair and competitive contingency fee, the amount of which is generally negotiable, depending on the case, but in no event is a fee charged unless there is a successful outcome. We also advance expenses in most cases.

Limited to Plaintiff's Civil Trial Litigation, including Aviation, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Hazardous Materials, Professional Liability, Insurance Bad Faith, Environmental Torts, Admiralty and Commercial Litigation, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination, Toxic Torts, Employment Discrimination.