Society Of Maritime Arbitrators
An internationally recognized leading forum for the arbitration of maritime and commercial disputes
SMA joint luncheon
SMA-CMA joint luncheon Wednesday, Feb 12
3 West Club
Carleen Lyden Walker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Maritime Accelerator for Resistance, Co-Author Zero Point Four, and IMO Goodwill Maritime Ambassador, will discuss "Restoring US Maritime Might"
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The SMA will offer its popular, comprehensive seminar:
as an ONLINE ZOOM PROGRAM in January & February 2025
The seminar provides 12 hours of CLE and will be offered over four weekly three hour live Zoom video sessions.
The October 2024 issue of
THE ARBITRATOR
THE ARBITRATOR -
Volume 54, No.3 - October 2024 has been published.
You may retrieve it by clicking on the following link:
Luncheon Schedule
On December 11, 2024, the SMA was pleased to welcome 70 guests to its annual holiday luncheon, held at the 3 West Club, at which Raymond Burke, Jr. (featured below with SMA President LeRoy Lambert) was honored with the first SMA Achievement Award in recognition of his storied 50 year career at Burke & Parsons. Ray and his colleagues supported the SMA and maritime arbitration from the beginning. During his career, Ray appeared as counsel of record in many published SMA Awards, was often appointed as arbitrator or selected as chair, and sat as a panelist in six published awards.
Also recognized was Jan Gisholt, Vice-President/Senior Lawyer at Skuld North America, Inc. (featured below with SMA President LeRoy Lambert and Membership Chair Gil Landy), who has recently been welcomed into the ranks of the SMA.
On October 16, 2024, the SMA was delighted to co-sponsor, together with the Admiralty and Arbitration Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the MLA, NYMAR, and Jus Mundi, a reception marking the publication of the 2d edition of "Navigating Maritime Arbitration", edited by SMA member David Martowski (pictured at the lectern) and John Kimball, a partner at Blank Rome LLP. In addition to Mr. Martowski and Mr. Kimball, speakers included Clay Maitland, Allison Skopec (pictured on the left of the group photo) of Holland & Knight LLP and NYC Bar Association Admiralty Committee Chair, and Gretta Walters (pictured on the right of the group photo) of Chaffetz Lindsey LLC and NYC Bar Association Arbitration Committee Chair. SMA members who attended included Charles Anderson, Louis Epstein, David Gilmartin, Anne Summers, George Tsimis (pictured in group photo) and Soren Wolmar.
SMA board member and past President Robert Shaw participated in a debate at the New York International Arbitration Center’s Grand Central Forum on September 24, 2024. The debate topic was: Preliminary Dispositions in Arbitration. In attendance were SMA members George Tsimis, Ilarion Marr, Bob Meehan, Jack Warfield and David Martowski (not pictured).
About The SMA
New York based SMA, a professional non-profit organization, is an internationally recognized leading forum for the arbitration and mediation of maritime and commercial disputes. The mission of the SMA is to establish commercially effective legal procedures for Alternative Dispute Resolution. The SMA trains and provides the maritime industry with experienced commercial professionals who resolve disputes in an impartial, timely and cost-efficient manner.
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