As today is the first business day of 2005, I figure this is a good day to launch this blog. The maritime industry is slow to adopting new technology and reacting to changes in the business landscape and the practice of maritime law is even slower. As a prime example of the speed of maritime law, consider that the US Supreme Court in Norfolk Southern v. Kirby, recently weighed in on the extension of Himalaya clauses to downstream commerce, only 49 years or so after the clauses came into existence.
I hope this blog will be a forum for the adoption and implementation of technology in the maritime industry, in the maritime law office and in the courthouse. As such, I will try to post about new developments and best practices, both within industry and within the practice of law. Maritime lawyers otherwise known as proctors in admiralty are as opinionated as most other lawyers and I hope a lively and fruitful debate will develop. Your comments and opinions will help make this a success - so please let me hear from you.
