Aviation lawyers at Kreindler & Kreindler LLP represented victim families from the 1988 Lockerbie disaster . They won liability and damages verdicts in cases against Pan American Airlines on the basis that the airline was guilty of ' wilful misconduct ' for allowing a bomb to be smuggled onboard their aircraft . The litigation against Pan American was a close call , after winning the trial , the firm won the defendants appeal to the Second Circuit on a 2-1 vote . In 1996 , the firm sued Libya for sponsoring the terrorist attack and later settled the case against Libya for 2.7 billion dollars . James Kreindler and other lawyers from the firm won the Public Justice 2009 Lawyer of the Year award for their work on the case
1988 Lockerbie disaster
Pan Am Flight 103
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