Jerome Skinner handles domestic and international aviation cases for Nolan Law Group. He brings to our clients 25 years of multi-district commercial airline litigation, complex tort, product liability and class-action experience. Jerome Skinner has successfully advocated for families victimized by almost every major U.S. airline disaster since 1989, including the negotiations that resulted in the State of Libya paying an historic $2.7 billion dollar settlement to the survivors of those killed by the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Some of his significant cases include:

• Egypt Air Flight 990
• Com Air Flight 3272
• USAF CT-43
• USAir Flight 427
• USAir Flight 405
• Northwest Airlines Flight 255
• United Airlines Flight 232
• Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland 1988
• Arrow Air, Gander, Newfoundland, 1989
• TWA Flight 800, New York, New York, 1996
• Swissair Flight 111, Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, 1998

Jerome Skinner has been a member of the court-appointed litigation steering committee PSC in the following cases: Pan Am Flight 103 - Libyan Litigation, NW Flight 255, USAF CT-43, TWA Flight 800, Swissair Flight 111, Egypt Air flight 990. In the litigation arising out of the Egypt Air 990 accident, Mr. Skinner also served as MDL Liaison Counsel, acting on behalf of all plaintiffs. Mr. Skinner is currently acting as Plaintiff's Liaison Counsel for the Cessna Caravan 208 Products Liability Litigation. Jerome Skinner has also represented plaintiffs in general aviation accident cases involving Beechcraft and Cessna small aircraft as well as in Agusta and Sikorsky helicopters.

Education:

• Ohio Northern University Petit College of Law, J.D. - 1979
• State University of New York, College of Fredonia, B.A. - 1974

Admitted:

• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois - 2004
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio - 1979
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky - 1982
• United State Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals - 1982
• United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky - 1986
• United States Supreme Court - 1986
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan - 1988
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio - 1992
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana - 1992