John "Jack" Veth
John J. "Jack" Veth, Esq., practices aviation law in Southern California. He graduated from New York University's School of Education in 1963 and began pilot training with the United States Air Forece that same year.
During his twenty-year military career Jack flew jet fighters, interceptors and culminated his military flying career as an Aircraft COmmander and Instructor Pilot in the record-setting supersonic SR-71, Blackbird, strategic reconnaidssance aircraft. Mr. Veth accumulated over four thousand flying hours as a USAF Command Pilot. Following military service, Mr. Veth joined the Borthrop Coporation's Development and Production Team for the Adcanced Technology (Stealth) Bomber, the B-2, at Northrop's Advanced Asystems Division.
A1987 graduate of Western State University College of Law, Mr. Veth was admitted to the California Bar the same year. Mr. Beth is a past presient of the Orange County Barristers and past president of the Orange County Trial Lawyers. In addition, Mr. Vethservewd on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in litgation arising out of the August 6, 1997, crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 on Guam and the January 31, 2000 Alaska Airlines crash off the coast of Southern California. He has litigated cases against the Boeing Company, McDonnell Douglas Helicopters, Inc., Robinson Helicopters Inc., Cessna Aircraft, Inc., and was lead plaintiffs' counsel in the litigation stemming from the crash of a Brazilian TAM Fokker 100 San Paulo, Brazil, which occurred in October of 1996.
Mr. Veth combines his experience in aviation with his legal education in a practice that includes aviation and complex tort law, personal injury, and product liability litigation. He was the managing partner of the California Office of the national law firm od Speiser Krause and has been Of COunsel to the aviation law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler. He was inducted into the Western State University College of Law Hall of Fame in 2004; was selected as the OCTLA Product Liability Top Gun Trial Attorney for 2005; and, was selected as a "Super Lawyer" in Southern California in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
During his twenty-year military career Jack flew jet fighters, interceptors and culminated his military flying career as an Aircraft COmmander and Instructor Pilot in the record-setting supersonic SR-71, Blackbird, strategic reconnaidssance aircraft. Mr. Veth accumulated over four thousand flying hours as a USAF Command Pilot. Following military service, Mr. Veth joined the Borthrop Coporation's Development and Production Team for the Adcanced Technology (Stealth) Bomber, the B-2, at Northrop's Advanced Asystems Division.
A1987 graduate of Western State University College of Law, Mr. Veth was admitted to the California Bar the same year. Mr. Beth is a past presient of the Orange County Barristers and past president of the Orange County Trial Lawyers. In addition, Mr. Vethservewd on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in litgation arising out of the August 6, 1997, crash of Korean Airlines Flight 801 on Guam and the January 31, 2000 Alaska Airlines crash off the coast of Southern California. He has litigated cases against the Boeing Company, McDonnell Douglas Helicopters, Inc., Robinson Helicopters Inc., Cessna Aircraft, Inc., and was lead plaintiffs' counsel in the litigation stemming from the crash of a Brazilian TAM Fokker 100 San Paulo, Brazil, which occurred in October of 1996.
Mr. Veth combines his experience in aviation with his legal education in a practice that includes aviation and complex tort law, personal injury, and product liability litigation. He was the managing partner of the California Office of the national law firm od Speiser Krause and has been Of COunsel to the aviation law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler. He was inducted into the Western State University College of Law Hall of Fame in 2004; was selected as the OCTLA Product Liability Top Gun Trial Attorney for 2005; and, was selected as a "Super Lawyer" in Southern California in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.