John A. Scialdone has achieved one of the broadest levels of experience available anywhere in the world for marine law. His litigation track record covers over 2 decades of actions in U.S. and foreign venues, with more than 47 successful verdicts and hundreds of successful mediated agreements, in matters ranging from complex commercial disputes to salvage, major casualties and personal injuries.

Mr. Scialdone’s trial and appellate practice have produced bench mark decisions on insurance coverage, standards of negligence and strict liability, causation, maintenance and cure remedies, contractual indemnity and insurance rights; most recently producing the historical ruling of Boudreaux vs. Transocean, which established for the first time in the history of the U.S. general maritime law the right of a Jones Act employer to recover maintenance and cure payments in a suit for fraud against the plaintiff.

Mr. Scialdone’s experience in transactions covers new build and vessel modification agreements, charters, bills of lading, terminal operations, sales agreements, dredging, public works projects, and a variety of security devices, as well as facilitating domestic and international joint ventures. He has successfully concluded more than $4 billion in contracts, financing and joint ventures over the last 20 years.

Mr. Scialdone is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Managing Partner for the firm’s offices in Gulfport, Mississippi and Cartagena, Colombia. Born in New Orleans Louisiana in 1966, he received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in 1989 and his Juris Doctorate from Tulane in 1992. He is a member of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, all federal and state courts in Mississippi and Louisiana, and currently privileged to be serving on the Federal Rules Committee for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi.