Brendan Schulman

Brendan Schulman, or “The Drone Lawyer,” as he is sometimes known, heads Kramer Levin’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems practice, the first of its kind in the United States. He successfully defended the first person prosecuted for operating a commercial drone in the United States, and advises manufacturers, business people, and hobbyists about the safe and legal operation of drones in a rapidly changing regulatory climate. “We seem to be heading down a road to regulations that will look a lot like full-blown aviation regulations,” he said recently in an interview with 3D Robotics. “The question for everyone is whether that’s what we need to achieve the appropriate level of safety and fully realize the potential social and economic good that the arrival of this technology heralds.”