Antonio J. Rodriguez has been named one of the top 20 shipping lawyers in the world in Euromoney's 6th Edition of its Guide to the World's Leading Shipping & Maritime Lawyers, which will be published in London this month.
To appear in the guide, each individual practitioner must meet a strict threshold of nominations from their peers after analysis and screening for firm, formal network, group or alliance bias.
Mr. Rodriguez is a managing partner in the firm and works in the New Orleans office.
For over 35 years, Mr. Rodriguez has practiced maritime, environmental and energy law. He has extensive experience in the areas of collision, other significant shipping and pollution casualties, environmental regulation, maritime products liability, cargo, ship construction and repair, charter and marine insurance coverage disputes. For many years, Mr. Rodriguez has represented major international and domestic marine, liability and energy underwriters, Protection & Indemnity Clubs, vessel owners and energy companies. Since 1981, he has taught collision, shipowner limitation of liability, and oil pollution as a professor of maritime law in the LL.M. program at Tulane University School of Law.
His personal experience in dealing with major shipping casualties and pollution incidents began in the 1970’s, and he has acted in numerous marine casualty and pollution cases since that time. Mr. Rodriguez has guided the development of a Major Marine Casualty Response Plan for Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli, and the establishment of a legal organization to respond for shipping casualties and pollution incidents wherever they may occur. In addition, for many years, Mr. Rodriguez has authored the oil pollution chapter of the leading United States maritime law treatise.
As a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Mr. Rodriguez served on Active Duty as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy on sea duty aboard destroyers (1966-1970) (Officer of the Deck, Task Force Operations). From 1970 to 1995, he served on Reserve Duty with the U.S. Naval Reserve, with unit commands in Louisiana, Florida and Washington, D.C., and retired at the rank of Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve, in 1995.
