Scope & Range of Services

Fritz R. Kahn is a lawyer specializing in the field of administrative and transportation law. With offices at 1920 N Street, NW, (8th fl.), Washington, DC 20036-1601, Mr. Kahn represents shippers, governmental bodies, 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. He is a Researcher for the Legal Research Network, Inc., and a Member of the Gerson Lehrman Group's Council of Advisors.
Among his current clients are Potlatch Corporation, SMS Rail Service, Inc., Greyhound Lines, Inc., Williams-Sonoma, Inc., and Phelps Dodge Corporation.

Mr. Kahn served as commerce counsel for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and Monongahela Railway before their acquisition by other railroads. He represented the StatesRail railroads until they were acquired by RailAmerica, Inc. 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 Greyhound Lines, Inc., since its 1987 acquisition of Trailways Lines, Inc.

Mr. Kahn entered the private practice after serving six years as the General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission, predecessor of the STB. 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 and Santa Fe Railway Company.

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, "The Disappearing Diagrams," in the Spring 2004 issue of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum -- and participates often in panel discussions on transportation regulatory issues, as, for example, the 6th Annual Global Forum on Railroad Finance held in New York on June 12, 2000.

Qualified as an Administrative Law Judge by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as Arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kahn organized and manages Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C., of Washington, DC. With a roster of twenty Interstate Commerce Commission and Surface Transportation Board experienced and industry knowledgeable professionals, TAM has been selected to administer the arbitration programs of the Transportation Intermediaries Association and the National Classification Committee of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association.

Mr. Kahn is an Order of the Coif and Law Review graduate of the Law School of the George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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, Logistics and Policy, of which he was President in 1988-89, the Transportation Research Forum, of which he was General Counsel from 1979 to 1987, and the Transportation Lawyers Association.