Kramer Levin has helped family members of fallen firefighters gain the release under the Freedom of Information Law ("FOIL") of tapes and transcripts of 911 calls made on September 11. After three years of litigation, the New York State Court of Appeals last year ordered the City to release thousands of pages of material. Last summer, the City released oral histories of fire department employees of their experiences on that day. Additional materials, consisting of tapes and transcripts of the operators' and dispatchers' voices from calls made to 911 on September 11, were released on March 31. Our clients had sought this material to a get a better picture of what happened on that day and in the hope that the information would assist in preventing future catastrophes and to promote skyscraper safety. The release of these materials generated great interest in the media, and a press conference held at Kramer Levin attracted local, national, and even international news agencies from as far away as Japan, Canada, and England. Kramer Levin Partner Thomas Moreland and associates Ilyssa Sena and Jennifer Despins have represented the families in this litigation since 2002.