Mediation Specialties
Admiralty, Auto, Aviation, Bodily Injury, Business, Cargo Crew and Passenger Injury, Commercial, Death, Discrimination, Employment, Entertainment, Environmental, Federal South, Federal Middle, Governmental, Health Care, Insurance Disputes, Labor, Legal Malpractice, Longshore, Maritime, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury, Premises, Products Liability, Professional Malpractice, Securities, Sports Labor Disputes, Tort, Workers' Compensation

Education

United States Naval Academy, class of 1978.

American Educational Institute, Senior Claims Law Associate (SCLA), 1984.

Heriot Watt University, MBA, current.

Accomplishments

He is a Certified Mediator.

Member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators.

Arbitrator with the Miami Maritime Arbitration Council.

Associate member of the American Bar Association.

Associate member of the National Bar Association.

Member of the Society of Claims Law Associates.

Selected as a 1995 International Who's Who of Professionals.

Experience

He served as Maritime Claims Manager for Marine Office of America Corporation from 1979 - 1988.

Maritime Claims Manager for Carnival Cruise Lines from 1988 - 1992.

Managing Partner of Colson, Sawyer & Associates, an aviation/maritime consulting & sports management firm, from 1992 to present.

Athlete Contract Advisor.