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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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