Michael Pearson

Michael Pearson handles a wide variety of litigation in state and federal courts across the United States. Clients include family members of the 19 Granite Mountain firefighters who lost their lives in the sixth-deadliest firefighter disaster in American history, as well as persons catastrophically injured or killed due to the negligence of others. His aviation clients include those injured in airplane and helicopter accidents, as well as airlines, entities and airmen accused by the FAA of violating the Federal Aviation Regulations. General litigation clients range from large business entities to everyday individuals who have lost property or have been unfairly treated. Mike’s aviation law textbook, “ Foundations of Aviation Law ,” is used by students in numerous institutions of higher learning. He is a graduate of the Department of Transportation aviation accident investigation program, a certified air traffic control specialist (CPC), a pilot, and a professor at Arizona State University, where he has taught aviation law, aviation regulations, and other legal subjects since 1993. Since the firm's inception Curry, Pearson & Wooten, PLC has successfully tried, and settled, multiple seven figure cases.

Employment and Industry Experience:

Certified Professional Air Traffic Control Specialist (Tower/TRACON)(1984- 2010); Control Tower Operator (1984-2010); FAA Quality Assurance Specialist (1992-1994); Private Pilot; Professor, Aviation Law, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (1991-1994); Professor, Aviation Law, Arizona State University, 1994— current. Author: "Foundations of Aviation Law", Ashgate Publishing, Fall 2014.

Industry and Peer Ratings:

AV Rated; Super Lawyers; Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum; Arizona's Finest Lawyers; National Trial Lawyers Association- Top 100 Trial Attorneys; AVVO "10" rating, America's Top 100 Attorneys, America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators.

Mr. Pearson is a pilot and holds an FAA CTO certificate.