Richard A. Nielsen
Richard Nielsen is a Principal and Partner of NIELSEN SHIELDS, PLLC, and has practiced maritime law in Seattle for his entire legal career. Mr. Nielsen obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and Philosophy in 1978, from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1981, he obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, where he was Managing Editor of the University of Puget Sound Law Review and a Founding Member of the Puget Sound Public Interest Law Foundation. After law school, Mr. Nielsen was Law Clerk to the late Honorable William T. Beeks, a nationally recognized jurist who handled the entire maritime caseload in the Western District of Washington, and with whom he acquired his appreciation for and foundation in maritime law. Mr. Nielsen is an active member of the Washington State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States, within which he sits on the Committee on Marine Torts and Casualties and the Fisheries Committee.
Since 1982, Mr. Nielsen's practice principally has involved the defense of seamen's personal injury and death claims arising through the Jones Act and General Maritime Law, Longshore & Harbor Workers' Compensation Act claims, Section 905(b) negligence actions, and representing insurers in marine insurance coverage matters. Since 1990, Mr. Nielsen has been heavily involved in handling claims, and consulting with employers, brokers and insurers, relating to Jones Act/GML/LHWCA/state comp (Alaska, Washington, and California) cross-over risks and/or claims, and providing risk analysis and business practice planning for clients with multi-jurisdictional exposures. Mr. Nielsen has addressed employers, carriers and various related interests involved with maritime claims and litigation at numerous conferences and gatherings, including those sponsored by the Puget Sound Marine Claims Association, the Marine Insurance Association of Seattle, the Longshore Claims Association, the Northwest Longshore Administrators Association and the American Longshore Mutual Association.
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