Maritime Law Practice Overview

Because of the uniqueness of Maritime and Admiralty Law, it is highly advisable to retain the most knowledgeable and competent maritime law practitioner available. A maritime case handled by an inexperienced shore-side lawyer is a legal mis-match that will adversely affect the outcome. Particularly in the maritime legal arena, “Knowledge is Master” and experience his helmsman. To chart a true course and to bring your cause to safe harbor requires precise legal wisdom of the salty and wet persuasion. In the old days, a person with such wisdom was a Proctor-in-Admiralty — one who practiced only in the admiralty courts and exclusively upon maritime matters.

Since 1982, Tom Schodowski has been recognized as a Proctor-in-Admiralty by the Maritime Law Association of the United States and offers his talents to commercial and private maritime interests in the following areas: