California Maritime Lawyers

Pacific Ocean - San Diego - San Francisco - Admiralty Law Attorneys

Our California maritime lawyers at the law office of Banning Micklow & Bull LLP represent people injured or aggrieved in any type of maritime activity or dispute. While those words offer a broadly accurate summary of what we do, their sheer simplicity might mislead you as to both the scope of our work and the nature of our clientele.

Whether you're a deckhand hurt on a North Pacific fishing vessel, or a freshwater boater involved in a collision on Lake Powell, we can help you. Call the San Diego-San Francisco maritime law firm of Banning Micklow & Bull LLP, and find out what a California maritime lawyer can do for you.

From law offices in San Diego and San Francisco, our California admiralty attorneys can recover damages under maritime law for persons injured at sea, in coastal waterways, and on inland navigable waters. The vessels involved can range from the mightiest supertanker right on down to a kayak or canoe, if injury or even death should result from an accident.

AV Rated* California and Pacific Basin Maritime Attorneys

Few of our clients, and even fewer lawyers, seem to be aware that when water is involved, the rules of civil litigation can change drastically. The guiding principle for our personal injury and wrongful death clients is simple - if the accident involved water, you must consider maritime jurisdiction, and whether maritime law may apply. It can offer enormous advantages to those who know how to use it. The millions we've recovered for our clients reinforce our guiding principle emphatically.

While the merchant seaman hurt in an accident is usually aware that the Jones Act gives his claim for personal injuries special treatment under federal maritime law, it seldom occurs to either the personal watercraft plaintiff or his attorney that a poorly placed channel marker might result in federal maritime jurisdiction and liability for an accident on California and America's rivers. We know better, and our clients benefit for it.

Our California maritime lawyers have among them more than one-hundred years' of combined experience in the field. They chose maritime law, they teach it today, they publish articles about it, and they are hard at work for clients trying cases in state and federal courts and hunting down evidence in ports all over the world.

To see what difference an experienced Northern or Southern California maritime lawyer can make in your personal injury claim or accident lawsuit, contact our office Us in San Diego or San Francisco for an admiralty law attorney's advice.

Banning Micklow & Bull LLP - California Maritime Lawyers