John Woods: Maritime Attorney

John Woods has been a practicing maritime attorney in New York for over 45 years. He is currently Of Counsel to Clyde & Co., a large London-based International law firm, having spent the majority of his career at the firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood.

John concentrates his practice in representing US and foreign insurers (principally Lloyd’s Syndicates and London insurers) in the areas of maritime hull, liability, cargo, pollution, war risk, loss of earnings and environmental pollution claims. He has been involved in most major maritime casualties over the past 40 years, including the Exxon Valdez, Costa Concordia, Deepwater Horizon and numerous major pollution incidents.

John is the former Chair of the Admiralty Committee of the New York City Bar Association, a former director of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, and is the current President of the Tulane Admiralty Law Institute, a biannual academic conference in New Orleans.

John is a graduate of Middlebury College and Tulane University Law School.