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TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

The Transportation & Logistics practice area, headed by Steve Block, is focused on the unique business and legal issues arising in the dynamic transportation and trade industries. Betts, Patterson & Mines’ Transportation & Logistics attorneys resolve transportation business and litigation problems in domestic and foreign commerce, offering a wide range of legal services to both transportation providers and the business consumers of transportation and logistics services.

Services offered by the Transportation & Logistics practice area include:

  • Transportation documentation - issues involving bills of lading, transportation contracts, invoices, owner-operator leases, and logistics management and distribution agreements
  • Defense for all types of transportation-related accidents, including personal injury and wrongful death
  • Freight loss and damage claims - insurance coverage analysis, claims processing, negotiation, and litigation
  • Employment law - independent contractor/employee disputes, ADA compliance, defense of harassment claims, overtime, and other general employee status issues
  • Rail service and service abandonment issues
  • Marine cargo defense and subrogation
  • Maritime liens
  • Maritime collision, oil spill, product liability, and salvage
  • Defense of FELA and Jones Act/Longshore personal injury claims
  • International trade, including customs clearance, export licensing, letters of credit, and other trade financing documents
  • Transportation logistics and related supply - chain management planning and implementation
  • Antitrust law, counseling and advocacy, unfair trade and business practices
  • Freight invoice collection issues
  • Foreign trade zone operations

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