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Mainbrace (July 2019 - No. 2)

The central theme of Dan Brown’s best-selling book Origin involves answering the long-debated questions on evolution: Where do we come from? Who are we? And, where are we going? When you think about it, those three simple questions, when answered by any individual, group, or organization, will, in all likelihood, include an assessment of their own evolution. Blank Rome Maritime’s evolution, in and of itself, is quite extraordinary.

Where did we come from? On January 1, 2003, the firm Dyer Ellis & Joseph, P.C. joined Blank Rome, bringing with them a group of talented attorneys that focused on maritime regulatory, environmental, and transactional matters, formally launching Blank Rome Maritime. Three years later, on October 1, 2006, the firm Healy & Baillie, LLP joined Blank Rome, bringing with them a group of attorneys who had a broad array of dispute resolution skills focused on international shipping disputes and transactional matters. Then, on August 1, 2013, the firm Bell, Ryniker & Letourneau, P.C. joined Blank Rome, expanding Blank Rome Maritime’s geographic footprint by adding shipping lawyers in Houston, Texas. In the intervening years since 2003, Blank Rome Maritime has added many talented partners and associates, expanding each office and broadening the scope of matters we presently handle today. Read More »

This article by William R. Bennett III, of counsel at Blank Rome, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the July 2019 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.