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Four practices. One waterfront.

Representing the maritime, fisheries, and transportation industries is the touchstone of the firm. Around that core we handle the litigation, workers’ compensation, and business matters those clients bring us, and the same work for Washington employers well beyond the docks.

LITIGATION & CLAIMS WORKERS' COMPENSATION MARITIME & TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS LAW
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Litigation & Claims

Our litigation and claims group handles accidents and casualties as well as commercial, employment, and insurance disputes, with advice and advocacy at every stage from first investigation to final appeal.

Our attorneys are licensed in the state and federal courts of Washington, Alaska, and Oregon, and appear in mediation, arbitration, and agency hearings in each. Clients include established and start-up enterprises, their principals, insurers, brokers, and third-party claims administrators.

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Claim survey alongside a container vessel
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Workers' Compensation

We represent employers, insurers, third-party administrators, and brokers in every aspect of their workers’ compensation legal issues, defending claims under the statutes of Washington, Alaska, and the federal Longshore Act and its extensions.

Because the group sits inside a maritime and business firm, it sees each claim in the context of the employer’s whole operation. Employer and carrier side only.

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Maritime & Transportation

This is where the firm began. We know the difference between inland transportation and inland marine, freight and cargo, brown water and blue water, and we have spent more than forty-five years counseling the vessel owners, fisheries, terminals, and carriers who live those distinctions every day.

Whether the question sits in Title 16, 33, 46, or 49 of the United States Code or in the general maritime law, we have it covered.

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Business Law

Our business group gives practical, straightforward advice from start-up through sale or other liquidity event, helping clients through the legal and practical issues of running a company in and around the maritime economy.

There is no such thing as a routine transaction. We bring the diligence, patience, and guidance we would expect from our own advisers.

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We represent employers, insurers, and vessel owners. We do not represent claimants or plaintiffs.
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