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Chalos, O’Connor & Duffy, LLP is internationally recognized as legal experts in the areas of international commercial transactions, maritime, environmental, insurance and reinsurance, energy, defense of liabilities, including personal injury defense and product liability. In addition, we have pioneered a new area of specialization maritime criminal defense.

Innovation is not something that we avoid, rather, it is our experience and our creativity that, appropriately applied to a particular problem, are the keys to our success.

Our attorneys are motivated by a central principle committing us to client service: we succeed only when our clients do. We are dedicated to ensuring that each of our clients receives the individualized service and expertise required to achieve success. Our clients’ needs come first and drive our focus; a focus that is based on achieving client objectives in the most pragmatic, prompt and cost-effective manner possible. Recognizing that our clients entrust us to handle critical and complex legal problems, our commitment is to deliver unsurpassed service and the best achievable results, on a 24-hour basis whenever, and where ever, a problem may arise. Our proven ability to resolve problems in a realistic, cost effective and result-oriented way is the hallmark of our firm.

The firm represents major corporations, insurers (both domestic and foreign), shipowners, charterers, protection and indemnity associations (P&I Clubs), brokers, third-party claims administrators, energy companies, regional and money center banks, hotels, real estate developers, governmental agencies and public bodies, refineries, oil and gas exploration companies, manufacturers, shipyards, exporters, stevedores and a broad array of other professional firms and associations.