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12/13/97 Hong Kong Office Relocates

The firm's Hong Kong office relocated to Suite 1303, Dina House, Ruttonjee Centre, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong. The telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged. Tel.: 852 537-8628; Fax: 852 521-9072.

10/15/97 Brad L. Berman joins the firm

Brad L. Berman has become a a member of the Firm. Brad is the President of the Connecticut Maritime Association and holds a law degree from New York Law School (1983) and an MBA from City University of New York (1984). He is a member of the New York, Connecticut and Florida bars, and has expertise in ship finance and corporate law. Brad's previous experience included associations with Seward & Kissel and Hill, Betts & Nash.

10/14/97 Telephone Numbers change for New Jersey Office: Tel. (973) 912-8955; Fax (973) 912-9767

5/29-31/97 Partner LeRoy Lambert to speak

Mr. Lambert will be one of the speakers at a seminar in Hamburg, Germany entitled "Arbitration in Maritime and Transport Disputes" sponsored by the International Bar Association, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, the German Institute of Arbitration, and the London and German Maritime Arbitration Associations.

5/1/97 The Firm is sponsoring WISTA's (The Women's International Shipping and Trading Association) Breakfast and Panel Discussion "Seafarers in the New Millennium" on May 1, 1997 at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, at 8:15 a.m. The cost is $30. RSVP to Reception.

4/5/97 The Firm extends its best wishes to Nick and Margaret Healy on their 60th wedding anniversary which was celebrated at Saint Patrick's Cathedral on April 5, 1997 at 10:00 a.m.

2/18/97 Healy & Baillie Debuts Website and Sponsors CMA Virtual Conference

For the first time the Connecticut Maritime Association's Annual Conference will be on-line. Healy & Baillie is proud to sponsor the CMA's Shipping '97 Virtual Conference. Now members of the maritime community worldwide can share in the experience of attending this important conference. The Shipping '97 Virtual Conference home page will have a banner allowing viewers to go directly to Healy & Baillie's new website.

The new H&B website provides an additional way to deliver important legal information to the maritime community. At the website the Maritime Oil Pollution Center has an emergency procedure for use in oil spills, a checklist to make sure you are prepared should a spill occur and important emergency numbers. It is designed to be downloaded and saved, so it will be immediately at hand should an emergency occur.

The H&B website also has the current issue of H&B's Mainbrace newsletter and will soon have all back issues on-line. With the electronic version of the Mainbrace, anyone can electronically search all the back Mainbrace issues using the keyword search engine at the website. The H&B website also has direct email links to every H&B attorney, their bios, an extensive bibliography and information about the firm's practice areas. Coming soon will be a resource center of information on Time and Voyage Charters.

2/6/97 Electronic Contracting Presentation at Hellenic/Norwegian American Shipping Conference

H&B partner, Robert Shaw, in his role as President of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce welcomed everyone to the 1997 "From Home Port to Home Page" Third Annual Shipping Conference sponsored by the Hellenic American and Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce. Mr. Shaw presented the opening and closing remarks at the conference on February 6, 1997 at the NYC Grand Hyatt Hotel to 120 members of the shipping industry.

At the annual conference H&B partner and Webmaster, Glen Oxton gave a presentation on digital signatures and electronic contracting. Glen explained how digital signatures work, their benefits, and the new problems they cause. He also gave a live demonstration of Viacrypt's PGP popular digital signature and encryption software.

1/97 Mainbrace Arrives

The Healy & Baillie Mainbrace Newsletter for January 1997 has now be sent to its world-wide list of subscribers and is on-line at the H&B website. The on-line version is electronically searchable and includes Insurance and Re-insurance:The Perils of Re-Domestication, Basic Requirements of the ISM Code, The Consequences of Arbitrator Disability, Enforcement of Arbitration of Non-Maritime Claims Under the UN Arbitration Convention, as well as additional articles and news about the firm.

1/1/97 Growth at Healy & Baillie, New Partner, New Associates

On 1/1/97 Matthew Marion became the newest partner of Healy & Baillie in the firm's Stamford, Connecticut office. Matt is a graduate of Columbia University and the Washington College of Law of American University. Matt is also Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on OPA Concours of the Maritime Law Association He is a member of the New York, Connecticut (pending), D.C. and Massachusetts Bars.

Joseph E. Petersen became an associate of the firm in August 1996. He has a B.S. from the University at Albany, State University of New York and a J.D. form Vanderbilt University School of Law.

Thomas H. Belknap, Jr., became an associate at the firm in September 1996. He has a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law.

12/96 Seatrade's 2nd Annual Maritime Lawyers Review

H&B partner John Koster was quoted as saying "'After an extended period of gradual contraction, the market for maritime legal services, in general seems to have levelled out.' His firm has hired new associates and brought in new partners and is larger now than ever before."

11/29/96 Lexmar Clashes With Fredriksen in USD $12M Lawsuit

Tradewinds - Partners, John Kimball and Cameron Beard, are representing Northern Tankers (Cyprus) Ltd, which is owned by John Fredriksen, in its action for $12MM against Lexmar Corp and its principals, Magnus Lindholm and Adam Backstrom for a 1990 charter party of the VLCC Independence. In the Tradewinds article Senior U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel is quoted as saying "Its hard to envision a maritime company that can justify paying the expense of the homes its owners as a pooling arrangement. It is just not a pooling arrangement." The article states that "Lindholm paid USD 4m to a London interior decorator who adorned his Greenwich [CT US] mansion.

10/17/96 Babel Afloat Speech by Judge Charles Haight at the Third Bi-Annual Nicholas J. Healy Lecture

Judge Haight on October 17, 1996 at NYU School of Law spoke on "Babel Afloat: Some Reflections on Uniformity in Maritime Law". This series of lectures was established in 1992 by NYU to honor Nicholas Healy's 40 years as an adjunct professor of law at NYU and his accomplishments as an author and co-author leading textbooks and scholarly articles on maritime law.

10/11/96 U.S. Congress Enacts Law to scuttle Hyundai's $44MM Suit

Tradewinds - The U.S. Congress stepped in to protect the Defense Mapping Agency of the Pentagon for its failure to maintain proper maps which resulted in the grounding of a large Hyundai Merchant Marine vessel on a shoal off Brazil. H&B partner John Kimball is quoted in the article as stating, "Hyundai's reaction can best be expressed in on word:outrage." Hyundai will refile its $44m action in Korea.

10/3/96 "Women Rock the Boat in Maritime Law" in the Stony Brook Statesman.

Related Articles appear in the 6/96 New York Women's Bar Association newsletter, and the 5/3/96 Journal of Commerce. H&B attorneys, Ellen Fitzgerald, Evanthia Coffee, and Cathy Niarchos organized a panel discussion and 100 women came to the Yale club to hear them and their invited speakers discuss the rapidly changing world for women in the maritime industry.

6/12/96 Seaman's Church Institute Gives Nicholas Healy Distinguished Service Award

American Shipper The Monthly Journal of International Logistics.

9/96 TWA Flight 800 Operation Recovery Results in Call Up of H&B Partner

John Ingram was called up for active duty in the New York Naval Militia, because of the TWA Flight 800 air disaster. John is also a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. During Operation Recovery he worked as liaison coordinating the work of the Army Guard, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard.


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