Welcome!
VAI welcomes aviation-related and general-practice law firms as organizational members. With an organizational membership, every lawyer in your firm also becomes a VAI member and receives all the benefits that VAI offers.
Why should lawyers join VAI?
- To be featured in VAI’s legal directory. The legal directory is the centerpiece of VAI’s member-only legal resources platform. VAI members include more than 1,300 companies and over 16,000 professionals in the global vertical aviation industry.
- Only VAI member lawyers are eligible to be listed in the legal directory.
- Every lawyer in your firm is eligible to create a profile in the directory.
- To demonstrate expertise to potential VAI member clients. Member lawyers are eligible to respond to questions submitted to the “Ask a Lawyer” forum and to contribute newsletter articles on legal topics of interest to members.
- Lawyers responding to Ask a Lawyer questions will be identified by name and firm name when the question and answer are posted.
- Lawyers contributing articles will be bylined.
- To show your involvement and interest in the vertical aviation industry. Research shows that aviation experience is a highly important attribute to aviation professionals when choosing a lawyer, even when seeking counsel for general practice areas (e.g., corporate, tax, or employment issues).
- Membership shows your investment in the vertical aviation industry.
- Membership makes you part of the VAI community.
- To better serve VAI member clients.
- Joining VAI gives you and every lawyer in your firm access to tools that help increase your understanding of the vertical aviation industry and issues of key importance.
- General law practitioners in particular can leverage their VAI membership to learn about the vertical aviation industry.