Program Details
2026-11-19 14:30:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-19 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis hour is for the defense lawyer who must advise a vessel employer, operator, or P&I club this week whether to contest seaman status for a mixed land-and-vessel worker. It shows how to build the nature-of-connection record from dispatch logs, crew-change data, hitch schedules, MSAs, and vessel ownership and charter records. It uses Santee II, Bommarito, Stringer, and Clapp to separate records that win from records that lose. Attendees work a sample assignment log to calculate time-in-service and score the three Sanchez nature factors, and they leave with a status-record checklist and an LHWCA-fork pre-motion questionnaire.
Jedd S. Malish 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis hour is for the defense lawyer who must tell a P&I club or vessel employer this week whether to pay, investigate, or terminate maintenance and cure before the medical picture is clear. Working from the 2025 *Ward v. M/Y Utopia IV* fee-entitlement order, where a willfulness finding on delay alone carried fee entitlement, the session covers three mid-claim scenarios: a new surgical recommendation, a suspected concealed prior injury, and an MMI opinion from an IME that conflicts with the treater. Attendees make the call in each scenario and leave with four tools: a decision tree, a maintenance-rate worksheet built on the *Hall* comparison test, a reservation-of-rights paragraph drafted around *Boudreaux*, and an MMI inquiry letter template.
Sara B. KuebelChristopher M. HannanAustin S. GlascoeJedd S. Malish is a Member of King & Jurgens, L.L.C. in New Orleans, where he defends personal injury and wrongful death claims under the Jones Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and general maritime law for clients in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. He also counsels vessel-side clients on drafting and negotiating master service agreements, marine transportation agreements, purchase order terms and conditions, and warranty provisions. His litigation practice extends to collisions, allisions, sinkings, salvage, pipeline ruptures, pollution, commercial disputes, insurance coverage, subrogation, and recreational boating accidents.
Sara B. Kuebel is a partner in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans, where her practice concentrates on maritime litigation, including Jones Act, general maritime law, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act claims. She has tried Jones Act personal injury cases for employers in bench and jury trials, handled appeals to the Louisiana appellate courts and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and drafted amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court. She is a co-author of Admiralty in a Nutshell and teaches a course on maritime commerce as an adjunct professor at LSU Law.
Christopher M. Hannan is a partner in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans, where he represents vessel companies, offshore service providers, and marine insurers in Jones Act, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act cases, in marine insurance coverage and limitation of liability actions, and in the indemnity and risk-allocation disputes that follow a casualty. His background includes a secondment as a claims handler with a Lloyd’s of London syndicate and a fixed-premium protection and indemnity insurer, where he handled vessel operations and general marine claims. His practice spans the blue water and brown water industries, offshore infrastructure, and offshore operations, in matters litigated domestically and internationally.
Austin S. Glascoe is an associate in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans and a member of the firm’s maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team. His litigation work includes personal injury claims under the Jones Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, vessel collision cases under the Limitation of Liability Act, charter party disputes, and environmental claims, and he has litigated matters through trial and appeal in state and federal courts.
Jedd S. Malish is a Member of King & Jurgens, L.L.C. in New Orleans, where he defends personal injury and wrongful death claims under the Jones Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and general maritime law for clients in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. He also counsels vessel-side clients on drafting and negotiating master service agreements, marine transportation agreements, purchase order terms and conditions, and warranty provisions. His litigation practice extends to collisions, allisions, sinkings, salvage, pipeline ruptures, pollution, commercial disputes, insurance coverage, subrogation, and recreational boating accidents.
Sara B. Kuebel is a partner in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans, where her practice concentrates on maritime litigation, including Jones Act, general maritime law, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act claims. She has tried Jones Act personal injury cases for employers in bench and jury trials, handled appeals to the Louisiana appellate courts and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and drafted amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court. She is a co-author of Admiralty in a Nutshell and teaches a course on maritime commerce as an adjunct professor at LSU Law.
Christopher M. Hannan is a partner in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans, where he represents vessel companies, offshore service providers, and marine insurers in Jones Act, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act cases, in marine insurance coverage and limitation of liability actions, and in the indemnity and risk-allocation disputes that follow a casualty. His background includes a secondment as a claims handler with a Lloyd’s of London syndicate and a fixed-premium protection and indemnity insurer, where he handled vessel operations and general marine claims. His practice spans the blue water and brown water industries, offshore infrastructure, and offshore operations, in matters litigated domestically and internationally.
Austin S. Glascoe is an associate in the Maritime Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans and a member of the firm’s maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team. His litigation work includes personal injury claims under the Jones Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, vessel collision cases under the Limitation of Liability Act, charter party disputes, and environmental claims, and he has litigated matters through trial and appeal in state and federal courts.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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