Dr. Barbara E. Lichman, Managing Partner of Chevalier, Allen & Lichman, LLP, has an extensive and successful record representing airports, municipalities, developers, and other public and private clients in litigation and administrative proceedings under the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), the California Public Utilities Code governing land use and airport environs (“Aeronautics Act”), the National Environmental Policy Act, the Federal Clean Air Act, the Federal Clean Water Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, and the California Costal Act, among other Federal and State statutes.  She has also successfully represented clients on land use issues including land use restriction and zoning, inverse condemnation, airport access, and air crash liability. 

Dr. Lichman’s experience is both national and international.  As a Registered Federal Lobbyist, Dr. Lichman successfully lobbied and testified before Congress on behalf of aircraft owners and operators on issues including the grant of investment tax credits for noise reduction of aircraft engines.  She also served as counsel to Air AAA Group, a consortium of international architectural, engineering and construction companies in their airport development activities at Pudong Airport, Shanghai, China.   

Prior to the establishment of Chevalier, Allen & Lichman, LLP in 1995, Dr. Lichman was an associate at Katten, Muchin, Zavis and Weitzman (1994-1995) where she was a member of the litigation team representing airlines such as U.S. Air and their insurance companies in air crash personal injury and wrongful death litigation.  From 1988-1994, Dr. Lichman was an associate in the litigation department of McKittrick, Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh (now Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus & Peckenpaugh) where she represented a broad array of corporate clients in contract and associated civil litigation. 

A member of the State Bar of California, Dr. Lichman is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of California and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Sixth and D.C. Circuits.  Dr. Lichman earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Brandeis University in 1967, a Masters of Planning from the University of Southern California School of Urban and Regional Planning in 1981, and a Doctorate in Philosophy in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California School of Urban and Regional Planning in 1987.  In 1988, Dr. Lichman earned her law degree (Juris Doctor) from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. 

E-mail: blichman@calairlaw.com