Kaplan Kirsch LLP, in cooperation with the Commuter Rail Coalition, presented the 2025 Passenger Rail Law Workshop virtually. This year’s workshop was a series of webinars taking place between October 23 and December 11, 2025.

Please see below for copies of the PowerPoint presentations used for each webinar:

1 – Federal Grant Agreements: Tips on What You (and the Feds) Can, Can’t, and Must Do to Meet Agreement Obligations

2 – Swimming Out of the Deep End: Insurance Pools and Liability Caps for Passenger Rail

3 – Frontline Player: Passenger Rail Operations Confronting Human Trafficking and Federal Immigration Enforcement Activities

4 – How Passenger Rail Can Help Address America’s Mobility and Housing Crisis

5 – Reforming NEPA: What Recent Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Changes Mean for Environmental Review of Rail Projects

6 – Non-Federal Actors Leading the Way on Regional and Intercity Passenger Rail Development