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Strasburger is among a limited number of law firms in North
America that have made a major commitment to handling the multitude of legal matters
regularly faced by transportation and logistics companies, both domestically and internationally.
This commitment is supported by the firm's substantial presence in Texas, one of the world's
most dynamic and innovative centers for transportation and logistics. The importance of
Texas as a center for transportation and logistics is illustrated by the following facts:
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the world's third busiest
passenger airport.
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Texas also is home to Alliance Airport, the world's largest all cargo airport, and to
Addison Airport, the world's busiest general aviation airport.
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The Port of Houston is the world's eighth largest, ranking first in the U.S. in volume of foreign tonnage, and second in volume of total
tonnage.
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Texas annually has a larger number of freight transportation border crossings to and from
Mexico and Latin America than any other state in the U.S. bordering
Mexico.
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Laredo, Texas is the busiest inland port in the U.S.
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Texas is the headquarters location for three major airlines, for the largest full-service
refrigerated trucking company in the U.S., for the largest bus line in
the U.S., for the second largest railroad in the U.S., and for leading
logistics providers.
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With the second largest population of any state in the U.S., plus
ready access to Mexican, Latin American and overseas markets, Texas is a primary location for freight terminals, freight warehouses and freight distribution
centers.
Today, the firm's focus on transportation and logistics extends
not only throughout Texas, but also far beyond Texas. Having offices
located in the national capitals of the U.S. and Mexico, as well as in
four major Texas cities, Strasburger views transportation and
logistics from a domestic, international and intermodal perspective,
with close attention to the details "on the ground" at our strategic
office locations.
The more than 30 lawyers in the firm's transportation/logistics law practice
group are drawn from all six of the firm's offices. They have highly
diverse backgrounds, with several being thoroughly bilingual in English
and Spanish. The group includes a former Vice President and Deputy
General Counsel of the American Trucking Associations, who was
instrumental in drafting virtually all Federal trucking legislation
during the past quarter century, as well as a past President of the
Transportation Lawyers Association. The group also includes lawyers who have
completed:
- a training program for the safe handling and
transportation of hazardous materials;
- the National Safety Council's defensive driving
course for professional truck drivers at Groendyke Transport, Inc.'s
training facility located at Enid, Oklahoma; and
- Mayflower Transit, Inc.'s Practical Transportation
Training Institute For Litigation Attorneys at the Mayflower
Transportation Training Center for drivers located at Carmel, Indiana.
Strasburger's experience in transportation/logistics law includes
representation of a wide variety of clients, such as:
- Airlines
- Direct and indirect air cargo carriers
- Aircraft and engine manufacturers
- Domestic and foreign aircraft repair stations
- Airports
- Banks and other capital providers to the transportation/logistics
industry
- Travel agents
- Motor freight carriers (including the less than truckload, truckload,
tank, dry bulk, drive-away, courier and private segments)
- Bus lines
- Household goods carriers
- Air, ocean and inland freight forwarders
- Transportation brokers
- Customs brokers
- Railroads
- Warehouse operators
- Consolidators
- Third party and fourth party logistics providers
- Shippers
- Insurers
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REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
Clients for whom Strasburger lawyers have
handled transportation/logistics matters include:
- Air Van Lines, Inc.
- Alan Ritchey, Inc.
- American Airlines, Inc.
- American Eagle Lines
- American Trucking Associations, Inc.
- Amstan Logistics, Inc.
- Arkansas Best Corporation
- Atlas Van Lines, Inc.
- Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.
- Blessey Marine Services Inc.
- Blockbuster, Inc.
- Boeing Capital Corporation
- BostonCoach
- C 2 Freight Resources, Inc.
- C.H. Robinson Company
- C.R. England, Inc.
- C.R.S.T., Inc.
- Canadian American Transportation C.A.T. Inc.
- Cámara Nacional del Autotransporte de Carga (CANACAR) (Mexico)
- CANAC Inc.
- Canadian Freightways Limited
- Canadian Trucking Alliance
- Cargill, Inc.
- Celadon Trucking Services, Inc.
- Challenger Freight Systems, Inc.
- Con-way Inc.
- Coastal Towing, Inc.
- Con-way Freight Inc.
- Concord Transportation Inc. (Canada)
- Consolidated Freightways Liquidation Trust
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board
- Dart Transit Company
- Day & Ross Limited (Canada)
- Dell, Inc.
- DHL Worldwide Express, Inc.
- DSI Transports, Inc.
- Dunbar Armored, Inc.
- Dynamex
- ElkCorp
- Energy Transport, LLC
- Exel Global Logistics, Inc.
- FedEx Freight East, Inc.
- FedEx National LTL, Inc.
- FFE Logistics, Inc.
- FFE Transportation Services, Inc.
- FirstFleet, Inc.
- Fleetline, Inc.
- GE Capital Commercial Finance
- Gramercy Insurance Company
- Great Western Express
- Greyhound Lines, Inc.
- Grifco Transportation Ltd.
- Groendyke Transport, Inc.
- Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.
- Halliburton Company
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- Horizon Maritime LLC
- Hulcher Services, Inc.
- Kirby Inland Marine, LP
- Landstar Systems, Inc.
- LinkEx, Inc.
- Lisa Motor Lines, Inc.
- Luhr Bros., Inc.
- Lynxs Group, LLC
- Maersk Line Limited and Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.
- Mark IV Logistics
- Mary Kay, Inc.
- McCollister's Transportation Systems, Inc.
- Menlo Logistics, Inc.
- MW Logistics, L.L.C.
- National Dairy Holdings, L.P.
- National Unity Insurance Company
- Nationwide Magazine & Book Distributors, Inc.
- Nippon Express, U.S.A., Inc.
- NYK Logistics, Inc.
- Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
- Pacific Motor Transport Company
- Pacer International, Inc.
- Penske Logistics, Inc.
- Penske Truck Leasing Co.
- RailTex, Inc.
- Renfro Foods, Inc.
- Roadway Express, Inc.
- Rollins Truck Leasing Corp.
- Schneider Logistics, Inc.
- Schneider National, Inc.
- Shippers Warehouse, Inc.
- Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc.
- Swift Transportation Co., Inc.
- Temple-Inland Forest Products Corporation
- Texas Mexican Railway Company
- Titus Transportation, LP
- TNT Bestway Transportation, Inc.
- Transamerica Leasing, Inc.
- Transervicios, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
- Transplace
- Transport Nordique Inc. (Canada)
- Triad Transport, Inc.
- Trinity Industries, Inc.
- Triple Crown Services Co.
- Truckers Express, Inc.
- Truckload Carriers Conference
- Twin Modal
- United States Aviation Underwriters, Inc.
- United Van Lines, Inc.
- UPS Freight, Inc.
- Washington Post Company
- W & B Service Company, L.P.
- Vistar Corporation
- YRC Worldwide, Inc.
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OUR TRANSPORTATION/LOGISTICS TEAM
Strasburger's transportation/logistics lawyers stay abreast of current
issues and developments in transportation/logistics law through
memberships and involvement in organizations such as the American Trucking
Associations; the Association For Transportation Law, Logistics And
Policy; the Aviation Law Forum of the American Bar Association; the
Aviation Law Section of the State Bar Of Texas; the Canadian Transport
Lawyers' Association; the Conference Of Freight Counsel; the National
Association Of Railroad Trial Counsel; the Texas Motor Transportation
Association; and the Transportation Lawyers Association. Recognized for
their knowledge of the latest developments affecting the
transportation/logistics industry, our lawyers are frequent speakers
before these organizations.
In addition, Strasburger is a member of the American Law Firm
Association ("ALFA"), an association of major law firms
throughout the U.S. and in twenty-three countries. This membership allows
Strasburger to partner with other ALFA law firms in the U.S. and other
countries to help our clients with legal needs in such locations. Our
transportation/logistics lawyers are active leaders of ALFA's
transportation law education committee.
Our team is dedicated to providing legal services promptly and in a
cost-efficient manner. As part of its long-term commitment to the
transportation/logistics law practice, Strasburger dedicates firm
resources to the training and mentoring of associate lawyers and
paralegals. By staffing transportation and logistics
legal matters with the appropriate partner, associate and/or paralegal
personnel, the firm is able to provide the highest value with
cost-effective billing rates which help clients keep legal budgets on
track.
Strasburger is also dedicated to finding complete solutions for a
client's problem. When necessary, this involves the combined effort of
lawyers in more than one area of law. Our broad-gauged approach is illustrated by the fact that five lawyers in the firm's international law
practice are also active in the
firm's transportation/logistics law practice. Those lawyers include Mark Scudder (Dallas office), John Rogers (New York office), and Mark Andrews and Ken Siegel (Washington, D.C. office).
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