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August 12, 2010

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July 14, 2010

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June 15, 2010

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June 09, 2010

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Practice Areas

Anti-Terrorism & Human Rights

Aviation

Catastrophic Injury

Securities & Consumer Fraud

Transportation

Licensed In

CA, NY, SC

Admitted to Practice Before

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second and Ninth Circuits

U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

U.S. Navy - Marine Court of Criminal Appeals

U.S. Courts - Martial

Education

LT, JAG Corps, Naval Justice School, 1999

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1998

Goethe Institute, Mannheim, Germany, 1995

B.A., Yale University, 1994

South Carolina

Vincent I. Parrett
Associate Attorney

Vincent I. Parrett

Vince Parrett represents victims of terrorism, human rights and aviation disasters, currently focusing on litigation on behalf of the family members of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Working on the civil action Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, he represents more than 6,500 victims’ families against the financial sponsors of al Qaeda. He also has represented individual clients in aviation liability and damages cases alleging negligence by the airlines and security companies with the 9/11 attacks.

Vince litigates corporate class actions to protect the direct financial interests of shareholders against under-priced or coercive corporate transactions. He has worked on PSLRA and federal class action securities fraud litigation, representing investors injured because of wrongful conduct.

Prior to joining Motley Rice in 2007, Vince represented victims of the September 11th attacks as an associate with a New York aviation firm. He represented clients in multidistrict litigation against financial sponsors of al Qaeda, and against the airlines and security companies who allegedly failed to implement basic security measures, enabling the terrorists to launch the attacks. During this time, he also worked on aviation litigation involving commercial and general aviation aircraft and helicopters.

Following law school, Vince completed research, document analysis and interviews as part of federal securities litigation and SEC investigations. After graduating from the Naval Justice School, he served as a Naval Officer in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) and tried scores of court martial trials before juries. In 2002, Lt. Parrett was appointed Officer-In-Charge of Naval Legal Service Office at Naval Air Station Oceana, where he led a team of JAG Officers providing legal counsel to the large Naval aviation community.

Vince has co-authored several articles and presentations, including Aviation Lawyers Striking Back At The Terror Network; and Reflections on the 1999 Montreal Convention Affecting Victims of International Aviation Disasters in Congested Skies.  He is a member of the American Association for Justice, American Bar Association and Federal Bar Council Inn of Court.