Posts Categorized In: Richard Martin

LLF attorney Richard Martin will be giving a Maritime Law 101 seminar as Continuing Legal Education to other attorneys this month.   This Maritime CLE will be part of the Louisiana Association of Justice “CLE á la Carte New Orleans” program at the Windsor Court Hotel on December 29, 2016.

THE LONGSHOREMAN AND HARBOR WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT AND ISSUES WHICH AFFECT DAMAGE RECOVERY BY THE PLAINTIFF by Richard M. Martin, Jr. The Longshoremen and Harbor Workers Compensation Act (“LHWCA”),1 allocates the costs of industrial accidents through a compromise between the rights of employees and employers that is typical of many workers’ compensation schemes: an injured… Read More

General and Rule 4(k)2 Jurisdiction by Richard M. Martin, Jr. Most of the time, thankfully, our Jones Act clients work in the Gulf of Mexico aboard locally-owned vessels. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes, your American client has a Jones Act employer which claims to be, e.g., from the Cayman Islands, while its corporate… Read More

Here’s Richard J. Martin, Jr.’s latest maritime article recently published in the Louisiana Association for Justice’s Louisiana Advocate. JONES ACT STATUS REVISITED In Alexander v. Express Energy Services Operating, L.P., 784 F.3d 1032 (5th Cir. 2015)1, the U.S. Fifth Circuit held that a platform worker whose duties were assisted by an adjacent vessel more than… Read More

Here’s the latest published article for the Admiralty Section of the Louisiana Association for Justice publication, Louisiana Advocate: Future Lost Income And Work-Life Expectancy by Richard M. Martin, Jr. Lamothe Law Firm, LLC If you represent maritime injury victims in federal court, one of your routine tasks is exchanging economic reports. Your client’s report typically… Read More

Attorney Richard Martin recently published another maritime article for attorneys in the Louisiana Association for Justice’s May edition of Louisiana Advocate.  Both Frank Lamothe and Mr. Martin are considered some of the best admiralty and maritime lawyers in Louisiana and are extremely skilled trial lawyers. Here’s the article: Using Ruiz v. Shell Oil Company in… Read More

Attorney Richard Martin recently published another maritime article in the Louisiana Association for Justice’s April edition of Louisiana Advocate. Both Frank Lamothe and Mr. Martin are considered some of the best admiralty and maritime lawyers in Louisiana and are extremely skilled trial lawyers. Here’s the article: “WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TROUBLESOME PRIEST”?… Read More

  “What Law Applies to Offshore Indemnity Contracts?”  This is the title of Richard Martin’s latest published maritime article for the Louisiana Association for Justice publication, Louisiana Advocates. LLF is a leader in maritime and offshore law.  Our firm was named Admiralty Law Firm of the Year in Louisiana by Global Law Experts.  Frank and Richard… Read More