After graduation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Peter D. Clark sailed seven years on U.S. flag vessels, including tankers, and is a licensed Chief Engineer. Mr. Clark graduated St. John's University School of Law and holds a Master's Degree in international law from New York University. He is admitted to the courts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Court of International Trade. Mr. Clark's areas of specialty are shipbuilding contracts and ship repair disputes, bulk oil transportation, marine insurance, general average and salvage. He also has litigation experience in major maritime cases and charter party arbitrations. From 1989-1997 he authored the Sea Law column for the Journal of Commerce. Mr. Clark is currently Chairman of the Admiralty and Maritime Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, New York State Bar Association. He is Past President of the New York Kings Point Alumni Association and President of the Propeller Club of New York. Professional memberships include: The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, The Society of Port Engineers and The Institute of Marine Engineers. Mr. Clark also serves as a maritime arbitrator.

Frank A. Atcheson, a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduate, sailed as a deck officer and later worked in the insurance department of a major steamship line. He was also a port captain and was responsible for vessel and container operations. Mr. Atcheson graduated from St. John's University School of Law and is admitted to the courts in New York, New Jersey, and the United States Court of International Trade. He has represented shipowners and lenders in ship finance transactions. His ship finance experience includes: drafting loan and mortgage documentation; forming vessel owning companies and preparing corporate documentation in connection with vessel acquisition and finance transactions; and registering ships under U.S. and foreign flags. Mr. Atcheson has advised vessel owners regarding regulations issued by government agencies and negotiated fines and penalties. He also has experience in cases involving bulk oil transportation and refinery disputes, shipbuilding disputes, general average, collisions, fires, marine insurance and charter disputes. Mr. Atcheson is Chairman of the Admiralty and Maritime Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, New York State Bar Association and a member of the Section's Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Propeller Club of New York.

Richard J. Reisert graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and sailed as a deck officer. Later, he was engaged as a marine surveyor and hull adjuster on behalf of shipowners, cargo interests and underwriters, and then served as claims manager for a leading operator of refrigerated vessels. In that capacity he was responsible for hull, cargo, P & I and other claims involving the company's large owned and chartered fleet, while also administering its marine insurance programs. Mr. Reisert graduated from Pace University School of Law and is admitted to the state and federal courts in New York and the United States Supreme Court. His areas of specialty are casualty, towage and pilotage, pollution, salvage, refrigerated cargo claims, charter party arbitration, products liability and insurance coverage disputes. He has represented foreign governments before commissions investigating major maritime casualties, and has substantial experience in transactional matters and litigation involving refrigerated shipping. Mr. Reisert's practice also includes drafting and negotiating shipbuilding and repair contracts, charter parties, contracts of affreightment and service contracts. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States (Committee on Marine Ecology), the Bar Association of the City of New York (Admiralty Committee), and the Association of Average Adjusters of the United States, and has served as a maritime arbitrator.

Stephen Carr is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Georgetown Law Center. Following law school, Mr. Carr served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps., after which he joined the maritime law firm of Haight Gardner Poor & Havens (now Holland & Knight). For many years, Steve was Chairman of the firm’s Litigation Section, and was the firm’s foremost trial attorney, specializing in the defense of maritime personal injury claims, medical malpractice and products liability actions. He has defended or prosecuted hundreds of jury trial cases, and has argued before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Carr is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania, and is also admitted to numerous federal district courts and courts of appeal.