Law Practice in Transportation Business
Law Practice in Transportation Business
Joel A. Webber, P.C.
My law practice today focuses on what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years as both an executive and a lawyer: the business issues involved in moving goods and people. These issues are two-fold.
First, they concern the law of business transactions: (i) Buying, selling and financing aircraft, trucks and rail rolling stock; (ii) Forming (privately held) corporations and LLCs, issuing their equity and debt, and financial restructuring and bankruptcy when needed; and (iii) Creating contracts that range from a simple bill of lading to complex logistics outsourcing.
Second, they concern government regulation of transportation business: Making sure that a company meets the evolving rules of legacy transportation agencies like FMCSA, FAA, FRA, and PHMSA – and at the same time responds to increasing post-9/11 demands from within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (TSA, U.S. Customs/CBP, U.S. Coast Guard and the new Chemical Security Compliance Division).
I practice as part of the Chicago area law firm of Couri and Couri.