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Doug Skinner

Doug Skinner

Partner

Office
St. John’s
Tel: 709.724.8249
Fax: 709.722.1763

Assistant
Ruby Howse
Languages
English

Profile

Doug is the Regional Manager of our St. John’s office. His practice focuses on insurance, maritime law and bankruptcy and insolvency.

 

He is a litigator with extensive experience including defence of liability, marine and auto insurance claims, insurance coverage disputes and ship arrests. In particular, Doug’s experience includes: litigation of insurance disputes on behalf of auto, property and casualty, commercial liability and marine insurers; management of a variety of general business disputes through litigation, arbitration and mediation; participation in multi-jurisdictional asset recovery effort on behalf of liquidators; work as part of integrated team on financings for several marine and fishery-related companies; coordination of flag state changes for offshore drilling rig; and, six-month secondment to a London law firm’s shipping litigation group.

 

Doug is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Defence Lawyers, Canadian Maritime Law Association, and Chair of the Maritime Law Newfoundland and Labrador subsection of the CBA.

Education

  • LL.B., Dalhousie University (1999)
  • Cert. Marine Law, Dalhousie University (1999)
  • B.Ed., Memorial University of Newfoundland (1996)
  • B.A., Memorial University of Newfoundland (1995)

 

 

Bar Admissions

Nova Scotia (2000)

Newfoundland & Labrador (2007)

 

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