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Law Offices of Preston Easley APC

4.6 out of 9 total

Office Address

2500 Via Cabrillo Marina
#106
San Pedro, CA 90731

At the Law Offices of Preston Easley APC, maritime injury law is the firm’s singular focus. Attorney Preston Easley represents everyone who earns a living on or around the water—blue- and brown-water seamen such as deckhands, mates, engineers, cooks, and captains; cruise-ship passengers and crew; longshoremen and stevedores who load and unload cargo; shipyard riggers, welders, crane and forklift operators; maritime construction crews building or repairing docks, piers, bridges, and offshore platforms; and commercial fishermen, drillers, and divers.

Because state workers’-compensation systems don’t cover these jobs, injured maritime employees must rely on specialized federal laws. Seamen who spend roughly a third or more of their time aboard a vessel can sue under the Jones Act for negligence damages—and they receive “maintenance and cure” benefits from the first day of injury. Harbor and waterfront laborers, as well as most ship-repair and rig workers, are protected by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, which furnishes wage-loss and medical benefits without needing to prove fault, yet still allows third-party negligence suits.

Employees on fixed offshore platforms and pipelines receive identical benefits through the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act extension of that statute. Preston Easley understands the nuances of each framework, from proving employer negligence or vessel unseaworthiness to maximizing Longshore disability ratings. His team moves fast to preserve logbooks, witness statements, and physical evidence, and he prepares every claim as if trial were imminent—driving insurers to pay full value. The firm works on a contingency basis, so you owe nothing unless compensation is secured. If you or a loved one was hurt at sea, on a dock, or on an offshore installation, contact the Law Offices of Preston Easley APC and put a seasoned maritime litigator in your corner.

Attorney Preston Easley

Attorney Preston EasleyA graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Preston Easley spent five years on active duty—serving as a deck officer aboard a fast frigate and later commanding a patrol boat—before additional service on a tank-landing ship in the reserves. While earning his law degree he gained hands-on maritime experience as a longshoreman and marine machinist at Todd Shipyard.

Now in his fourth decade of practice, Easley has secured landmark rulings for injured workers in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and California’s appellate courts, significantly broadening maritime and workplace-injury protections.

He has tried or settled countless catastrophic cases involving cranes, forklifts, scaffolds, dredges, barges, tugboats, ships, and defective marine equipment.

Licensed in California and Hawaiʻi, Easley advocates for longshoremen, shipyard and marine-construction crews, tug and dredge workers, merchant seamen, tour-boat personnel, operating engineers, ironworkers, refinery employees, and victims of serious truck or vehicle collisions—consistently pushing the law forward to maximize their recovery.

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