2015 High Stakes on the High Seas Maritime Law Conference
Speaker Materials
August 14, 1015
Windsor Court Hotel
300 Gravier Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
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Individual papers
Recent Developments in Maritime Law
Judge Carl J. Barbier
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans
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The Devil's Own Mess — Issues of State Law in Maritime Cases
Judge John W. deGravelles
U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
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Recent Developments Update:
McCorpen, Experts and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Hanna
U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, Lafayette
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Cutting-Edge Issues (and Songs):
Vessel Status, Seaman Status, Maintenance and Cure,
Removal into Admiralty, LHWCA sec. 5(b)
Professor David W. Robertson (Biography)
W. Page Keeton Chair in Tort Law, School of Law The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In Rem: In Vogue, Again?
Brian C. Colomb (Biography)
Domengeaux Wright Roy Edwards & Colomb, LLC, Lafayette
Conrad S.P. "Duke" Williams III (Biography)
Williams Law Group, LLC, New Orleans
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Punitive Damages and Attorney's Fees in Maintenance and Cure Cases — How to Get Them — How to Keep Them
Larry Curtis
Larry Curtis, APLC, Lafayette
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The Latest Law on the Pennsylvania Rule and Kernan v. American Dredging
John "Neale" deGravelles (Biography)
deGravelles, Palmintier, Holthaus & Frugé LLP, Baton Rouge
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