The TRB legal program is comprised of the programs of the Legal Resources Group Executive Board and seven committees within the Technical Activities Division as well as the two continuing legal research programs (NCHRP and TCRP). At the time when transportation programs have become legally entangled--and their opponents more litigious--government transportation lawyers are more than ever important partners in the success of transportation projects.
TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES LEGAL RESOURCES GROUP EXECUTIVE BOARD
The Legal Resource Group Executive Board serves as an umbrella for the seven technical activities committees by coordinating activities among committees and preventing duplication. Primarily, however, the Group's Executive Board focuses on the sessions at the TRB Annual Meetings and the Annual Workshops on Transportation Law. See the April, 2007 edition of The Natural Lawyer, a product of the Environmental Issues in Transportation Law Committee.
Annual Meeting Sessions
The Legal Resource Group Executive Board believes that its most valuable activities for non-lawyers are the sessions prepared at the TRB Annual Meetings. In the past, the committees in the group have presented sessions on highway user issues, tort liability risk management, evaluation of billboards, hazardous waste, and clean air legislation. The 86th Annual Meeting was held January 21-25, 2007. Click to view all of the Annual Meeting Legal Resources Sessions.
Annual Workshop on Transportation Law
The 47th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law will be conducted July 6-9, 2008. The workshop will be held at the Omni San Diego Hotel in San Diego, California. For program information, please click here, contact James B. McDaniel at (202) 334-3209 . For registration, please contact Bruce Millar at (202) 334-2824.
For 46 consecutive summers, the Legal Resources Group Executive Board has sponsored the Annual Workshops on Transportation Law. This workshop attracts 150-175 lawyers, engineers, and transportation planners.
Workshop participants not only present unusual cases, but often identify potential legal problems before they become widespread predicaments. The workshop's greatest success, however, is providing a forum in which attorneys from federal, state, and local highway and transit organizations come together once a year to exchange problems and propose solutions.
Contact Person:
James B. McDaniel
Counsel for Legal Research Projects jmcdaniel@nas.edu
(202) 334-3209
