| S. Nina Gellert |
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Ms. Gellert has been with the firm since 1993, representing shipowners, charterers, P&I clubs, terminal operators, insurance companies and small businesses in a wide variety of maritime and non-maritime commercial disputes. She has focused her litigation and arbitration practice on oil spill, charter party, sales contract, products liability and environmental insurance coverage disputes. In conjunction with maritime disputes, she routinely obtains security for her clients claims by locating and arresting or attaching property in New York and New Jersey. She also frequently advises clients as to federal and state regulatory issues in the areas of oil pollution, marine transportation and international trade. In the non-litigation commercial arena, she negotiates contracts for small businesses and individuals. Ms. Gellert is very active with the Maritime Law Association's Young Lawyers Committee and with WISTA USA, the US chapter of an established international shipping organization dedicated to promoting business among women in the trade.
| Education: | Princeton University (A.B. 1987); Université de Dakar, Faculté de Droit, Senegal (1987-88); Tulane Law School (J.D. 1993) |
| Affiliations: | Maritime Law Association of the United States (Vice Chair, Young Lawyers Committee, 1996-present; Comite Maritime International Committee, 1995-present); American Maritime Cases (Editorial Fellow, 1997-present); Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce (member, Editorial Board, 1997-present); Women's International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) USA (Editor, The Watch, the quarterly newsletter, 1997-present); New York Junior League; American Bar Association; New York State Bar Association |
| Publications: | Author, Caveat Embargo! (Maritime Law Section, Lloyd's of London Press website, 1998); Co-Editor, 29 Moore's Federal Practice ch. 704 ("Admiralty Practice and Procedure") (3d ed. 1997); Co-author,Private Sector Producers of Electronic Charts and Equipment: Potential Exposure to Liability presented at the Second International Conference on Maritime Law and the Electronic Chart (New Orleans, 1995) |
| Awards: | Rotary Graduate Scholarship to Dakar, Senegal; American Jurisprudence Award in Comparative Law |
| Admitted: | New York, New Jersey |
| Language: | French |
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