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Our guides cover a broad – and growing – range Welcome to the 2019 Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, the international of legal practice areas, including: legal market’s leading guide to the top female legal practitioners advising on business law. The inaugural edition in 2010 was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from the fe- Aviation male business community endorsing the idea of a guide devoted exclusively to the best female Banking, finance and transactional practitioners globally. The Women in Business Law, is one of the prolific Expert Guides publica- Commercial arbitration tions and clearly the benchmark in the industry. Competition and antitrust Construction and real estate The idea to promote and celebrate successful women in the legal industry was our initiative and Energy and environment the Expert Guides brand is unique among it’s competitiors due to a solid reputation over 25 Insurance and reinsurance years. International trade and shipping Labour and employment Life sciences When first published in 1994, the Expert Guides were the first-ever guides dedicated to leading Litigation and product liability individuals in the legal industry. Since then we have continued to focus on individuals consid- Patents ered by clients and peers to be the best in their field. Privacy and data protection Rising stars The guides for each practice area are updated regularly. Our research process involves sending Tax questionnaires to senior practitioners or in-house counsel involved in each practice area in over Technology, media and telecommunications 90 jurisdictions, asking them to nominate leading practitioners based on their work and reputa- Trademarks Transfer pricing tion. The results are analysed and screened for firm, network and alliance bias. The list of ex- Trusts and estates perts is then discussed and refined with advisers in legal centres worldwide. 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Each guide is also reprinted in full at www.expertguides.com The Research Team 2 EXPERTGUIDES WOMEN IN BUSINESS LAW SPONSOR FIRMS Sponsor and contributing firms attorneys WOMEN IN BUSINESS LAW EXPERTGUIDES 3 EXPERTGUIDES THE WORLD’S LEADING LAWYERS CHOSEN BY THEIR PEERS AVIATION Feature for: Laura Pierallini of Studio Pierallini 5 4 EXPERTGUIDES WOMEN IN BUSINESS LAW THOUGHT LEADERSHIP AVIATION AVIATION Automation in the aviation industry and liability related aspects Laura Pierallini Studio Pierallini Rome As generally known, automation is the utilization of different control systems and technologies that reduces the need for human interfer- ence over the processes to complete tasks and activities. In the aviation industry, modern commercial aircraft are equipped with automated systems that are able to increase or even replace pi- lots’ actions, managing engine power, controlling and operating flights and, in some cases, also complete landings. Also air traffic con- trol authorities rely on automation technologies that can foresee and detect the weather conditions, as well as reduce the chances of air col- lisions and crashes. In addition, nowadays the provision of on-board services and passenger comfort are largely based on the use of tech- nologies that affects the jobs of crew members whose tasks are shifting from being a performer to a mere checker of devices. There are clear advantages and benefits that airlines are experiencing in implementing automated tools and applications. With the involve- ment of humans becoming less and automation taking over a more im- portant role for the aviation industry, the chances of errors are also becoming significantly less. Indeed, with reduced direct operational in- volvement, flight crew members can allocate concentration to keeping flying planes on their own without the machine support. It is remark- awareness with their environment and communication with colleagues able that the average pilot of a Boeing or Airbus commercial aircraft during take-off, cruise and landing phases. Another advantage of au- manually flies the plane just few minutes of the whole flight time, tomation can be seen in relation to operating cost reduction, since most mainly during take-off, the initial climb up to cruise altitude and then of the work is carried out by computer systems. For instance, an effi- for the landing operations. Even if autopilot systems are able to reduce cient flight performance can reduce fuel consumption to achieve a workload and fatigue for pilots, a balance between the reduction of lower operating cost and so allow commercial airlines to gain greater human intervention and capacity/possibility to master technologies in profits. Furthermore, as flight information is automatically managed by case of emergency must be certainly achieved. Indeed, with increased specific tools, the requirement of having a flight engineer to oversee the reliance on automated technologies, flight crew may rely excessively performance of the so called “secondary airplane systems” and fuel con- on the glass cockpit and this could lead to negligence events. Experts sumption is no longer necessary. As a conse- are almost unanimous in the opinion that im- quence, a reduced number of flight crew proved pilot training programmes would be a members can help to cut costs for airlines. suitable solution for these