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Nationally Recognized Maritime, Cruise Ship, Personal Injury Attorneys Fighting For You
Our maritime, cruise ship, watersports, boating, resort vacation, and personal injury lawyers have decades of experience representing crewmembers, cruise passengers – victims of negligence or sexual assault – marine workers, recreational boaters, and resort guests.
Real Litigators
Brais Law has secured many millions of dollars in settlements and trial verdicts on behalf of our clients. We’re a team of active trial lawyers. We thrive in the courtroom before judges and juries and invest time and money to secure experts, both medical and liability, needed to prove up our clients’ life-changing injuries and award for monetary damages.
Real Maritime Experience
Firm Founder, Keith Brais, is one of only a handful of maritime attorneys with actual hands-on real-world experience and appreciation for the dangers of working offshore. During his seven-plus years working aboard ships and offshore oil rigs, he sailed under and acquired sea time under three U.S. Coast Guard Licenses. Our law practice is more than a job, it’s fueled by a passion for helping individuals and families rebuild their lives after a devastating loss or life-changing injuries and a desire to hold corporations with a “profit versus safety first mantra” accountable for their wrongdoings.
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About our Team
Meet our Maritime, Cruise Ship & Personal Injury Team
Keith S. Brais Brais Law Firm
Having graduated with a B.S. degree in Marine Engineering from Massachusetts Maritime Academy, acquired three U.S. Coast Guard licenses and worked on offshore oil drilling platforms for more than seven years, Keith Brais brings an uncommon degree of real world experience to his clients’ personal injury and wrongful death claims.
Michelle Y. Gurian Brais Law Firm
Michelle has concentrated in the area of plaintiffs’ civil trial practice since the beginning of her legal career. Her experience includes land-based and admiralty/maritime personal injury, wrongful death, and class action litigation.
Eliot T. Brais Law Offices of Eliot T. Brais
Eliot T. Brais is the sole and managing shareholder in his North Attleboro, Massachusetts office. He began his law career in 1988, joining his father, Ronald A. Brais, who had enjoyed a 40 year practice primarily concentrating on estate planning and small business law.
Injured at Work at Sea? Hurt or Assaulted on a Cruise Ship? Collision or Accident while Boating? Injured at a Resort Locally or Overseas?
You Have Legal Rights.
Brais Law Firm is a national recognized maritime law firm and Miami-based personal injury law firm helping men and women. If you were injured on any type of boat while at sea, we urge you to call our Personal Injury & Cruise Ship Accident law firm risk-free to learn about your rights as a victim. You may be entitled to compensation for a cruise ship, watersport, or boating accident, which can help you move forward with your life.
Maritime Lawyer & Injured Workers
If you were injured while working as a Jones Act seaman, crew member, offshore oil rig worker, commercial fisherman, long liner, shrimper, merchant marine, longshoreman dock worker, or a similar role, you may have a maritime claim for compensation.
Cruise Ship Accidents & Assaults
Our cruise ship injury attorney team can help if you suffered an injury or sexual assault while traveling as a cruise ship passenger, yacht guest, ferry passenger, or airplane passenger. We see accidents related to automatic doors, food poisoning, improper medical care, shore excursions, and more.
Boating & Watersport Accidents
A maritime lawyer handles injury claims arising out of personal watercraft accidents (like jet-skis), defective watercraft, boating accidents, yacht accidents, ferry boat accidents, charter vessel accidents, dinner cruise accidents, and scuba diving accidents.
Personal Injury & Resort Accidents
Our award-winning legal team works with many clients who were injured on land in car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, due to medical malpractice and, as well, injuries to invitees (e.g., resort guests) and vacationers on the property of another, including hotels and resorts for an unsafe property, including negligent security.
People Over Profit:
How Brais Law Is Putting Safety Ahead of Corporate Profit
Every maritime lawyer and cruise ship injury attorney at Brais Law Firm represents only people like you – individuals. We never represent insurance companies, cruise lines, corporations, or marine employers. We’re on your side, always.
After litigating in these areas of law for decades, we know that there is almost never a true “accident.” Rather, injuries are far more often caused by carelessness, indifference, corporate “penny pinching” or outright greed. As a consequence, safety is compromised. The reality is that corporate “bean counters” accept the inevitability of accidents but all too often decide it is cheaper to pay a deductible and turn the defense of a claim over to attorneys hired by an insurance company than to proactively implement safety measures to prevent an accident in the first place. Sadly, corporations place profit ahead of people. In these circumstances, we fight on your behalf to hold the defendant individuals or corporations financially accountable for the injuries you have suffered.
Recent Firm News
Brais Law Recognizes May as National Water Safety Month
May is National Water Safety Month. Coordinated by the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (PHTA) with support from the American Red Cross, National Recreation and…
Keith Brais Becomes Board Certified In The Field Of Admiralty & Maritime With The Florida Bar
Keith Brais becomes Board Certified by the Florida Bar in the area of Admiralty and Maritime Law. Read more
Keith Brais Achieves “AV Preeminent” Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
Keith Brais achieves “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings are the Gold Standard in attorney ratings, and have been for more than…
Maritime & Boating Accident News
Brais Law Wins Jury Trial Against Carnival Cruise Lines on Behalf of Cruise Passenger Who Suffered a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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