As an important component of our litigation practice, we have a strong professional interest in damages claims against foreign governments that we can prove to be connected to international terrorism. After Thomas Fortune Fay helped create the terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), while representing the Flatow family in 1996, this law firm has collected more than $2 billion for victims of terrorism.

We began our work on terrorism cases after the Flatow case, in which Alisa Flatow, an American visiting Israel for school, was targeted and killed by a terrorist car bomber who rammed his vehicle into a public tourist bus going to the beach. Today the Fay Law Group firm represents some of the 241 marines, soldiers, and sailors (and their families) that were killed on October 23, 1983 by a truck bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. 28 U.S.C. 1605A makes it possible for Americans to sue sovereign terrorist nations for civil damages on proof of their involvement with various forms of terrorism, and we have pioneered litigation of these cases on behalf of private citizens with personal injury or wrongful death claims.