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Russ Klingaman is a skilled trial lawyer and legal advisor, representing a wide range of individuals and companies. His long list of clients covers numerous professionals and their businesses, including doctors, lawyers, bankers, pharmacists, builders, engineers, insurers, software developers, architects, entrepreneurs, inventors, and many more. With significant experience in commercial litigation, intellectual property, product liability, and insurance law, Russ strives to help clients resolve any issues they face. Throughout his career, he has helped his clients protect their trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks by both enforcing and defending against a wide variety of IP claims.

Russ is dedicated to helping clients navigate their legal problems. His comprehensive understanding and practical approach to addressing each unique legal situation has allowed him to achieve remarkable heights of success.

Drawing on almost three-decades of experience, Russ consistently delivers outstanding, tailored, and cost-effective legal strategies without compromising on quality. Focused on growing businesses into sustainable institutions, Russ and his Hinshaw colleagues aim to provide both creative and practical solutions to obtain the best results. Russ delivers outstanding legal ideas that focus on contributing to the long-term success of each client.

As a licensed pilot and aircraft owner, Russ has combined his love for aviation with his outstanding legal ability to serve all manner of clients within the aviation community. He has worked with airlines, aircraft manufacturers, flight schools, charter operators, airport managers, pilots, mechanics, insurers, and others with their aviation-related legal matters. Russ has developed a reputation as a thought leader regarding aviation. He has litigated, presented on, and written about a plethora of legal issues including pilot errors, faulty maintenance, design defects, equipment failures, airport safety, air traffic control mistakes, insurance coverage, and transactional disputes—to name just a few.

Technology continues to develop at a rapid pace, and aviation is a major industry capitalizing on swift and extraordinary high-tech advancements. In recent years, Russ has maintained his focus on the evolving legal landscape involving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones. As increasing amounts of legislation and regulation take effect, Russ remains keenly aware of issues related to UAS operations including safety, privacy, property rights, and data security. By staying up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of aviation, Russ arms himself with the knowledge necessary to help his clients achieve the best possible outcomes.

With his many years of service to the aviation industry, Russ was elected in 2014 to serve a one-year term as the president of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association (LPBA). Dedicated to aviation-related safety, the LPBA fills a special niche, bringing together a diverse mix of lawyers, pilots, and many other folks with aviation-related careers. Russ has been a member of the LPBA’s board of directors since 2009.

Not content to simply deliver excellent legal results inside the courtroom, Russ is also helping to educate the next generation of lawyers with his knowledge of aviation law. Since 2007, he has been an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. While teaching aviation law, Russ has been able to further his own knowledge of current legal issues, while ensuring that new lawyers take advantage of his extensive insights on the legal profession, especially within the aviation community.

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