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Mr. Blatchley is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group where he concentrates his practice on admiralty and maritime law. Mr. Blatchley represents vessel owners and operators, charterers, construction and dredging firms, freight forwarders, inland carriers, lenders, marina operators, marine surveyors, marine trades providers, stevedores, and terminal operators in maritime litigation, as well as in marine-related commercial and corporate transactions. His practice covers an array of maritime disputes, including maritime collisions and casualties, charter party and marine services agreements, personal injury and death claims, Admiralty Rules B, C and D actions and insurance coverage disputes.  Mr. Blatchley also handles maritime financing, documentation and registration matters in connection with both commercial vessels and private yachts.

 

REPRESENTATIVE  CASES/TRANSACTIONS

• Attachment of chemical products tanker on behalf of foreign companies in connection with breach of a charter party and failure to pay monies due under a towage contract.
• Defense of numerous employers and vessel owners against maritime personal injury claims for Jones Act negligence, Unseaworthiness and Maintenance and Cure.
• Defense of numerous passenger vessels against claims for general maritime law negligence.
• Defense and representation of container lessor against arrest and attachment claims.
• Arrest of a pleasure vessel and prosecution of a claim for the equitable subordination of a first Preferred Ship Mortgage lien to maritime lien claims for necessaries.
• Arrest and Foreclosure of vessels under Preferred Ship and Fleet Mortgages.
• Representation of Petitioners in Limitation of Liability Act Proceedings and maritime death claims.
• Defense of marine underwriters in denial of coverage arbitration.
• Attendance in the event of United States Coast Guard/ United States Customs inspections and/or casualties.
• Representation of yacht dealers and buyers in vessel purchase and sale agreements.
• Representation of vessel owners and charters in bareboat, time and voyage charter negotiations.
• Representation of vessel owners with respect to vessel documentation and flagging issues.
• Representation of banks and private lenders in the negotiation of Preferred Ship and Fleet Mortgages.
• Representation of various entities in marine services agreements.
• Representation of the purchaser of a preferred ship mortgage note on a vessel in the purchase of the mortgage note, the self help remedy of private repossession and sale of the vessel pursuant to state law, and the subsequent federal documentation of the vessel.
• Representation of boat yards in the disposal and/or sale of abandoned vessels pursuant to the Rhode Island Drydock Statute and the Massachusetts Act Relative to the Disposition of Abandoned Vessels.
• Representation of dredging contractors in obtaining U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits.
• Representation of vessel owners in obtaining state tax abatements under state law for vessels which are federally documented.

EDUCATION
Tulane University Law School,
   J.D., Maritime Law Certificate 2007
   Tulane Maritime Law Journal,

    Notes and Comments Editor

   CALI Award, Marine Insurance, 2007

   Extern Honorable Tucker L. Melancon, W.D. L.A.

Københavns Universitet, 2006

Aegean Institute for Admiralty and Maritime Law Rhodes,
   Greece, 2005

Boston College School of Law
   Fall 2005 Visiting Student for
   Katrina Semester

University of Wisconsin-Madison,
   B.A. 2004
   Phi Beta Kappa
 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Maritime Law Association of the United States

Maritime Practice and Procedure Committee
Marine Finance Committee
Young Lawyers Committee

Massachusetts Bar Association
Connecticut Maritime Association
Rhode Island Bar Associtaiton
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
The Propeller Club of the United States,
   Port of Narragansett Bay

BAR MEMBERSHIPS
Rhode Island, 2010
Massachusetts, 2007
New York, 2011
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts, 2007
U.S. District Court, Connecticut, 2011
U.S. District Court, Rhode Island, 2011
U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2011