Mr. Adler represents clients in complex disputes in litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on the shipping, commodities, and energy sectors.  He regularly advises clients on high-stakes matters, often involving enforcement risk and cross-border proceedings. His practice spans all stages of litigation and arbitration, including investigation, emergency and interim relief, jurisdictional challenges, merits hearings, post-award enforcement, and appeals. He has extensive experience across major arbitral regimes and procedural frameworks, including SMA, AAA, ICDR, ICC, NAEGA, CPR, and ad hoc arbitration.

He has led or assisted in the representation of clients in matters involving cargo loss and damage, collisions, groundings, and sinkings, pollution claims, charterparty and bill of lading claims, commodity sales contract disputes, offshore wind projects, and matters relating to the design and construction of industrial equipment. He also has significant experience handling insurance coverage matters as well as major personal injury and wrongful death claims. Mr. Adler works closely with his clients to understand and manage risk, develop and implement litigation and arbitration strategies, and deliver commercially focused outcomes in complex and high-value matters.

Mr. Adler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and subsequently graduated with honors from Tulane University Law School, where he earned a Certificate of Specialization in Maritime Law. During law school, he served as a member and Editor-in-Chief of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal and as a judicial intern for a former Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Languages:
Hebrew (conversationally fluent)

Representative Matters:

• Assisted in the defense of an ocean carrier on claim for alleged seawater wetting to six trailers carrying mobile aircraft arresting systems, which were unpackaged on trailers and carried on-deck. Engineered Arresting Sys. Corp. v. M/V Saudi Hofuf, 46 F. Supp. 3d 302 (S.D.N.Y. 2014).
• Assisted with breach of contract case on behalf of a freight forwarding company against a cargo shipper, resulting in summary judgment that awarded client recovery of liquidated damages. Hansa Meyer Glob. Transp. USA, LLC v. Simmons Edeco, Inc., No. 14-cv-3323 (JSR), 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51453 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 13, 2015).
• Assisted in defense of international crude oil and petroleum products trading company in multi-million dollar oil delivery contract dispute.
• Assisted in representation of vessel owners, operators, and managers in claims brought under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act.
• Assisting in the defense of a vessel owner against claims under the Jones Act, arising from the death of a fishing vessel captain.
• Assisted in the defense of a Jones Act personal injury claim, resulting in several appeals to New York’s Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, including Ronkese v. Tilcon N.Y., Inc., 153 A.D.3d 259 (3d Dep’t 2017).
• Defense of vessel owners, operators and ship managers in personal injury and death cases involving claims for Jones Act negligence, maintenance and cure, unseaworthiness, and maritime products liability; defense of marine transportation, marine construction, and marine insurance companies in personal injury matters involving claims for § 905(b) liability and compensation under the Longshore and Harbor Worker Compensation Act; and defense of employers and insurance carriers in connection with personal injuries arising under the Defense Base Act.
• Assisted shipowners and vessel operators in drafting revisions to form bills of lading.
• Assisted in the recovery of in excess of $850,000 on behalf of vessel owner over charterer’s claimed force majeure defense in a case involving the wrongful termination of a charter party. In the Matter of the Arbitration between Pioneer Navigation Ltd., as Owner, and Chemical Equipment Labs, Inc., as Charterer, arising under a Charter Party of the M/V GENCO OCEAN dated December 4, 2014, SMA No. 4357 (2019), confirmation recommended by Pioneer Navigation Ltd. v. Chem. Equip. Labs, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-02938 (DAB) (SDA), 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214841 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 11, 2019).

• A Nail in the Coffin for Overtime Pay: The Fifth Circuit Clarifies the FLSA Seaman Exemption in Coffin v. Blessey Marine Services, Inc., 89 TUL. L. REV. 1243 (2015)
• Regal-Beloit Revisited in the Reverse, 39 TUL. MAR. L.J. 197 (2014)
• Situs Unraveled: Evaluating Methods for Determining Whether an Injury Site Qualifies as an LHWCA § 903(a) "Other Adjoining Area", 38 TUL. MAR. L.J. 147 (2013)
• Come One, Come All: The Second Circuit’s Messier Approach to Maintenance and Cure, 37 TUL. MAR. L.J. 605 (2013)
• Coffin v. Blessey Marine: FLSA Coverage (or Not) for Tankermen and Other Seafarers, Panelist – 25th Biennial Tulane Admiralty Law Institute, New Orleans, March 2015