Vince Deorchis

Vince DeOrchis has been a practicing maritime lawyer in New York City for nearly 45 years. Before going to law school, he spent several months at sea as a deckhand on a freighter that traveled between Spain and the East Coast of the US.

In the course of handling many marine casualty cases, he has traveled around the world performing investigations and working with organizations like the Comite Maritime International, the Maritime Law Association of the US, and the UNCITRAL workshop involved in the development of a new international convention for the carriage of cargo at sea.