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Frank H. Granito, Jr.
Frank H. Granito, Jr. is a resident of Stamford, Connecticut and counsel to Speiser, Krause, Nolan & Granito which he joined on February 1, 1967. He graduated from St. John's University Law School in 1962 and is admitted to practice in New York ('62) and the District of Columbia ('75), the U.S. District Courts of New York, the District of Columbia and the Eastern District of Michigan, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and the Supreme Court.
During the Fifties and Sixties, Mr. Granito served as a Naval Aviator with the Pacific Fleet and with the Naval Reserve, flying a variety of fighter and attack aircraft. He holds an airman certificate with instrument and commercial pilot ratings, is a member of The Wings Club and is listed in Who's Who in Aviation and Aerospace.
Mr. Granito belongs to several Bar Associations, including the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for which he served as Chairman of its Committee on Aeronautics from 1976 to 1979.
Before joining the Speiser firm in 1967, Mr. Granito was an enforcement attorney for the Federal Aviation Administration, served on assignment to the Justice Department and was a defense trial lawyer and corporate lawyer for the airline insurance industry. Since joining the Speiser firm, Mr. Granito has specialized in aviation litigation mainly from the plaintiff side of the Bar. A substantial portion of his practice has included appearances in air disaster litigation subject to consolidation under 28 U.S.C. 1407 (Multidistrict Litigation) in which he has served as Lead, Co-Lead, Trial and Appellate Counsel for Plaintiff Steering Committees. Among the air carrier cases in which Mr. Granito participated are: United Arab Airlines Viscount, Sahara Desert 1962; Mohawk Airlines Martin 404, Rochester, NY 1963; United Air Lines (UAL) Viscount, Parrotsville, TN 1964; American Airlines (AAL) B-727, Covington, KY 1964; Pakistan Airlines B-720, Cairo, Egypt 1965; Pan American Airways (PAA) B-797, Elkton, MD 1965; Canadian Pacific Airways DC-8, Tokyo, Japan 1966; PAA B-707, Monserrat 1966; Pilgrim Airlines DH-6, Long Island Sound 1970; Overseas National Airways DC-9, St. Croix 1970; Apache Airlines CJ-600, Coolidge, AZ 1971; Delta Airlines DC-9, Logan Airport, Boston, MA 1973; Trans World Airways (TWA) B-707 Ionian Sea 1974; Eastern Air Lines B-727, Kennedy Airport, NY 1975; AAL B-727, St. Thomas, V.I. 1976; New York Airways CH-53, Newark Airport, NJ 1979; Lot Polish Airlines IL-62, Warsaw, Poland 1980; Spantax DC-10, Malaga, Spain 1982; Korean Air Lines B-747, Sea of Japan 1983; LOT Polish Airlines IL-62, Warsaw, Poland 1987; PAA B-747, Lockerbie, Scotland 1988; Avianca B-707, Cove Neck, Long Island 1990; Action Air B-99, Bridgeport Airport, CT 1994; USAir DC-9, Charlotte, NC 1994; USAF CT-43 Dubrovnik, Croatia 1996; TWA B-747 Off Long Island 1996; SwissAir MD-11, Nova Scotia, Canada 1998; EgyptAir B-767, North Atlantic 1999; AAL A-300 Belle Harbor, NY 2001.
In addition to airline disaster litigation, Mr. Granito has appeared as trial and appellate counsel in wrongful death, personal injury, commercial and enforcement actions arising out of varied General Aviation and Military flight operations, including private, commercial, rental, corporate, commuter, industrial use, experimental and flight test operations. He also represented French claimants in the Chicago litigation arising out of the Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill off the coast of Brittany in 1978. Mr. Granito was an adjunct professor of Aviation Law, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He lectures on Air Law at Fordham University Law School and St. John's University Law School and is a frequent panelist and speaker at aviation law seminars. He and his wife, Helen Elizabeth Granito, have four children, three of whom are attorneys, including their son, Frank, who is a partner in the Speiser firm.
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