Representative Experience

• Auditing U.S. Flag carrier Safer Seas Act compliance

• Initial opinions and litigation drafting support for FMC charge complaints and formal complaints, negotiating Shipping Act claims

• Advising major ocean carriers on cargo claim defense and service contract matters, Federal Maritime Commission rulemaking, decisions, practice and procedure, and compliance issues arising from international conventions and domestic statutes and regulations

• IGP&I Correspondent services, handling a variety of matters that arise in the ports of the United States - evaluating claims and handling charterparty disputes, bunker contamination, Rule B/C attachments and arrests, cargo and personal injury defense

• Advising clean energy developer regarding Jones Act compliance

• Representing major East Coast city as a claimant in a Limitation of Liability Action

• Legal research, analysis, and drafting memoranda, arguments, and briefs in support of maritime litigation practices

• Advising marine insurance counsel on maritime law, litigation and settlement strategy

• Drafting ocean carrier and NVOCC shipping documents and internal policies and procedures

• Drafting commercial and recreational vessel charterparty and sale documents

• Service Contract review and advice