Blank Rome of counsel Alan M. Weigel will serve as a speaker at the University of Texas Law School’s 33rd Annual David W. Robertson Admiralty and Maritime Law Conference, being held Friday, January 10, 2025, from 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in Houston, Texas.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The David W. Robertson Admiralty and Maritime Law Conference focuses on legal developments in the specialized area of admiralty and maritime law and offers a unique opportunity for practitioners to stay abreast of global and national developments affecting case law, contracts, and civil procedure.
Blank Rome senior counsel Michael K. Bell is a member of the conference’s Planning Committee.
ABOUT ALAN’S SESSION
Alan’s session, “Choice-of-Law Issues and Proof of Foreign Law in Collision Cases,” will take place from 4:05 to 4:35 p.m.
Alan will examine how courts analyze the choice of law factors of Lauritzen v. Larsen and its progeny in a vessel collision case, and the materials courts consider in determining foreign law, using as an example the litigation resulting from the collision of a United States warship in the Singapore Strait.
Other sessions include:
- Recent Developments in Admiralty and Maritime Law at the National Level and in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
- Knowing the Ropes: Maritime Practice in a Post-Chevron World
- Salty, Silent, but Not Surreptitious: Update on Maritime Liens
- The More Things Change… 30 Years of Judging Admiralty Cases
- Robins Dry Dock and Intentional Torts
- To Save, or Not to Save: Perspectives on Admiralty Suits in State Courts under the Saving to Suitors Clause of 28 U.S.C. 1333
- What to Do if Your Client is Misbehaving (Part XIV)
- Why Does a Law Firm Need a Legal Department?
- The Potential-to-Disrupt Maritime Commerce Test for Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction
MCLE credit is available.
For more information and to register, please visit the conference webpage.
