Kipp C. Leland has practiced transportation and logistics law for over two decades, representing both logistics providers and shippers. He has handled matters related to logistics contracts, inland and trucking transportation, ocean transportation, and air transportation, among other logistics matters. Mr. Leland’s areas of practice cover a wide variety of transportation and maritime law, including marine claims on behalf of cargo arising out of vessel collisions, sinkings, fires, and explosions, inland transportation claims, claims arising out of warehouse fires and floods, and marine insurance litigation. Mr. Leland has participated in dozens of successful complex logistics mediations nationwide.

Significant cases include many broker/carrier/shipper inland disputes, the sinking by collision of the MV Tricolor in the English Channel, the sinking by collision of the MV Ziemia Lodzka in the Great Belt of Denmark, the explosion and sinking of the P-36 Floating Production Platform off the coast of Brazil, and the explosion and fire aboard the MV Flaminia.

Mr. Leland received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Transportation, summa cum laude, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He subsequently earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University Law School and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Rutgers University. He qualified with the U.S. Coast Guard for a Third-Mate license (inactive).

Mr. Leland is trained pursuant to New York State Unified Court System’s Part 146 Mediation Rules, and is available to perform mediations privately through the United States.

Mr. Leland and his wife, a law school librarian, reside in New Jersey.