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A former General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Fritz R. Kahn is a lawyer specializing in the field of transportation regulatory law. With offices at 1920 N. Street, N.W., (8th fl.), Washington, DC 20036-1601, Mr. Kahn represents shippers, state agencies, motor carriers and short line railroads before the Surface Transportation Board, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the reviewing courts. 

He has been retained as an expert witness on a variety of transportation regulatory issues in a number of court cases.

Mr. Kahn served as commerce counsel for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Pittsburg  & Lake Erie Railroad and Monongahela Railway before their acquisition by other railroads. On behalf of Mobil Chemical Company, Vista Chemical Company and Shell Oil Company, he handled major rate cases against the railroads serving them. He has represented the Nation's largest motor carrier of passengers, Greyhound Lines, Inc., since 1987.

 Mr. Kahn entered  private practice after serving six years as the General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission, predecessor of the Surface Transportation Board. As the agency's chief legal officer, he, among other things, argued the Northern Lines case before the Supreme Court of the United States, leading to the establishment of what now is the Burlington Northern SantaFe Railway.

Author of Principles of Motor Carrier Regulation and the second edition of Miller's Law of Freight Loss and Damage Claims. Mr. Kahn is a frequent contributor to transportation law journals -- most recently, "Schussing down the Preemption Slope" in the Second Quarter 2008 issue of the Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy -- and has participated in panel discussions on transportation regulatory issues.

Mr. Kahn was qualified as an Administrative Law Judge by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as Arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association. In 1994 he organized and currently serves as the manager of Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C., a select group of STB/ICC experienced and industry knowledgeable professionals qualified to arbitrate or mediate transportation related disputes.

He formerly served as a member of the Board of Appeals and Review of the District of Columbia Government from 2000 to 2004.

Mr. Kahn is an Order of the Coif and Law Review graduate of the Law School of the George Washington University and a Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa graduate of the Columbian College of the University.

He is a member of, among other bar associations, the Association of Transportation Law Professionals, of which he was President in 1988-89, the Transportation Research Forum, of which he was General Counsel from 1979 to 1987, American Society of Transportation and Logistics and the Transportation  Lawyers Association.                                                                            

Areas of Practice

• Transportation Law 100%

Honors and Awards

• Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif

Published Works

• Principles of Motor Carrier Regulation, Wm C. Brown Co., 1958
• Miller's Law of Freight Loss and Damage Claims, William C. Brown Co., 2nd Edition, 1961
• Schussing Doown the Preemption Slope, Journal of Transporttion Law, Logistics and Policy, 2nd Quarter, 2008
• Preemption Faces Trashing, Traffic World, November 3, 2008
• An Update on Railrod Regulation by the STB, The Transportation Lawyer, vol. 9, no. 3, 2007
• Elusive Spur Abandonments, Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, Third Quarter, 2005
• What'll the Web do to Brokers?, The Transporttin Lawyer, vol. 7, no. 1, 2005

Classes and Seminars

• Guest Lecturer - Judicial Review, American University Law School

Representative Clients

• SMS Rail Service
• Greyhound Lines, Inc.
• Illinois Department of Transportation
• V&S Railway
• BK Trucking

Representative Cases

• Northern Lines , (Supreme Court of the United States)

Ancillary Businesses

• Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C.

West Practice Categories

Transportation Law, Railroad, Trucking