Natalie Barefoot might be one of the few lawyers who enthusiastically describes her work as fun. As executive director of Cet Law, Barefoot has channeled her passion for cetaceans—which include…
Mar 1, 2017 4:20 AM CST
Natalie Barefoot. Photograph by Stephanie Stefanski.
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Arrested in Florida in January 2015 after several years on the lam, deep-sea treasure hunter Tommy Thompson pleaded guilty a few months later to contempt of court for failing to…
Mar 14, 2016 3:50 PM CDT
Although the parent company of a sunken ocean liner is based in Miami and five plaintiffs are U.S. residents, a Florida appeals court last week nixed a U.S. lawsuit over…
Feb 2, 2016 1:50 PM CST
A Massachusetts lawyer who specializes in defense of operating-under-the-influence cases was indicted Wednesday, along with a former law student intern, in a Boston Harbor boating accident in which alcohol allegedly…
Jul 2, 2015 10:50 AM CDT
An unidentified man got a $5,000 ticket from the U.S. Coast Guard after jumping off a charter fishing vessel into California waters last week on a dare.
Although the boat’s…
Jul 1, 2015 3:05 PM CDT
Expect to see a different kind of whale wars if a new Seattle environmental law firm, Sea Shepherd Legal, begins making headway.
Jul 1, 2015 6:10 AM CDT
Catherine Pruett of Sea Shepherd Legal
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A Louisiana-based international maritime boutique has acquired two Miami law firms and has opened another office in Tampa, Florida.
Fowler Rodriguez announced Thursday that Hayden Milliken & Boeringer, which…
Feb 26, 2015 3:10 PM CST
The captain of a cruise liner that capsized in 2012, resulting in the drowning deaths of 32 people, was sentenced Wednesday in an Italian manslaughter trial to 16 years in…
Feb 11, 2015 3:45 PM CST
The captain of the Costa Concordia caused a 2012 shipwreck of the massive ocean liner by steering it too close to the small Italian island of Giglio, in the nautical…
Feb 10, 2015 12:40 PM CST
A Malaysian defense contractor has pleaded guilty to charges that he bribed “scores” of U.S. Navy officials with millions of dollars in cash and gifts over a 10-year period.
Leonard…
Jan 16, 2015 1:10 PM CST
BP Plc was grossly negligent concerning the massive 2010 oil spill that occurred after a deadly explosion and fire at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico,…
Sep 4, 2014 5:30 PM CDT
A partner at a well-known Delaware law firm says in a court filing that he and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor knew nothing about an alleged fraud on a federal…
Sep 2, 2014 2:55 PM CDT
Updated: The captain of a ferry that sank Wednesday in South Korean waters, killing at least 64 people, has been arrested.
Although specific charges against Lee Jun-seok, 69, haven’t been…
Apr 18, 2014 7:10 PM CDT
A law firm that represented two divers who claimed to have found emeralds from a sunken ship is now facing a request for sanctions because of its actions in the…
Mar 17, 2014 2:02 PM CDT
Desperate to replenish the state’s supply of road salt at the tail end of a brutal winter, New Jersey officials have arranged to purchase 40,000 tons in Maine.
But the…
Feb 18, 2014 8:00 PM CST