We’ve built our admiralty and maritime practice over a professional lifetime, representing global clients and their interests in all kinds of maritime-related claims, including:

• Acting as Correspondents for Protection and Indemnity (P&I) and Hull & Machinery (H&M) Insurers

• Port State Inspection issues

• Defense of claims under the Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90) and state law

• Claims arising from groundings, collisions and salvage

• Defense of cargo claims

• Charter party disputes

• Limitation of liability actions

• Civil defense and coordination of criminal defense of claims under MARPOL and Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships

• Foreclosure of vessel mortgages and litigation of maritime liens

• Maritime bankruptcy litigation

• Marine insurance claims and coverage litigation

• Defense of seamen’s wage and personal injury (Jones Act) claims and third party longshore claims

• Litigation of maritime claims in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia