Profile
Dimitri Georgantas' practice concentrates on litigation in the areas of insurance defense and admiralty law including:
- Maritime personal injury
- Collisions and allisions
- Marine environmental pollution
- Marine insurance and ship finance
- Carriage of goods
- Maritime liens
Georgantas has tried jury as well as numerous bench cases involving maritime personal injury, collision, cargo and commercial matters and has also represented clients in arbitration proceedings. Additionally, Georgantas has handled numerous transaction matters involving the sale and purchase of vessels and barges.
Georgantas is admitted to practice before the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and the Supreme Court of Texas. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States.
Born in New York in 1955, Georgantas received his Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 1981. Raised in Athens, Greece, Georgantas is fluent in Modern Greek.
