My industry experience as both captain and counsel helps me know where to look for creative solutions to uniquely salty problems while my courtroom experience informs how I shape maritime contracts.I assist vessel owners, operators, underwriters, and shipyards and shipbuilders with the specialty contracts and risk mitigation structures that keep maritime businesses working.When things get sideways, I handle all aspects of claims investigation, management, and resolution.My litigation practice involves casualty response and investigation, collision and allision, groundings and sinkings, vessel arrest and attachment, maritime personal injury matters, various other marine insurance and commercial disputes in state and federal courts. I also represent mariners in U.S. Coast Guard suspension and revocation proceedings.Before attending law school, I captained vessels up and down the Eastern Seaboard and throughout the Caribbean as a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Master of Sail, Power, and Assistance Tow vessels. I am a Proctor Member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, for which I chair the committee on Inland Waters and Towing. I am a vice-chair of the American Bar Association's Admiralty and Maritime Law Section. I graduated from Tulane Law School's Admiralty Law Center, the nation's preeminent maritime law program.

Bar Admissions

• Oregon State Courts
• Washington State Courts

Education

• University of Vermont, Bachelor of Arts degree (2001)
• Tulane University Law School, Juris Doctor degree (2008)

• Maritime Risks in the Age of COVID-19
• COVID-19: Updates for Vessels and P&I Clubs
• Maritime Operators: Check Your Cell Phone Policy
• OP-ED: Be Prepared When an Emergency Occurs

Seminar

• Breakfast with Schwabe: Marine Operations and Litigation Smorgasbord
• Shipping 201: The Movement of a Ship
• 2021 Maritime Law Update
• CRSOA Coffee & Chat: Ship Arrests
• Schwabe Safety Summit 2021: Taking Advantage of Structural Change to Embed Safety
• Maritime Law of Allision and Wake Damage: Port of Kalama Ship Wake Incident
• Webinar: Safe Berth Warranty and the Athos I Decision
• The Good, The Bad and The UGLY: A Panel Review of Recent Personal Injury Cases
• Traps for the Unwary Vessel Owner and Claim Professional
• Moderator, Schwabe Maritime Safety Summit
• "Shipping 201: The Business of Shipping - Maritime Law & Insurance," Merchants Exchange of Portland, Oregon
• Crew Claim Traps for the Unwary: Minimizing Exposure from Hire to Resolution‎
• "Shipping 201: The Business of Shipping - Maritime Law & Insurance," Merchants Exchange of Portland, Oregon