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Jim Walker is a maritime lawyer in Miami Florida who focuses on representing passengers and crew members injured or assaulted on cruise ships.

Jim is a 1980 cum laude graduate of Duke University and a 1983 graduate of Tulane University School of Law where he pursued a maritime curriculum. He practices maritime law with his partner, Lisa O’Neill, also a Duke University cum laude graduate and a cum laude graduate of the University of Florida School of Law.

The firm has represented over five hundred passengers and crew members in cases against Carnival, Celebrity, Norwegian, Princess, Royal Caribbean, and other cruise lines. Mr. Walker has represented sixty cruise crime victims, including six passengers before the United States Congress during hearings on the issue of cruise ship safety. The firm obtained the highest multi million dollar recovery for a sexual assault victim in the history of the cruise industry.

Jim represents passengers throughout the United States and crew members from around the world.

Jim and his clients have appeared over 100 times on television and radio, as well as in newspapers and documentaries, including numerous times on Larry King Live, CNN’s Nancy Grace, Fox News, Greta Van Sustern, MSNBC, 48 Hours, BBC Radio, Canada’s CATV, and ABC’s Good Morning America and many others. The firm and our clients have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers.

JIm is a member of the Florida and Lousiana Bar Associations, a twenty-five year member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, and a member of the Multi-Million Dollars Advocacy Forum.