The Townsley Law Firm is a firm dedicated to one purpose: justice for our clients who are victims of maritime injuries, offshore accidents, industrial injuries, auto accidents, defective products, medical malpractice, and other serious injuries.The Townsley Law Firm has provided the highest caliber of legal service available to residents of Louisiana, Texas, and the nation. Our personal injury law firm is based in Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana and serves the surrounding parishes of Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Beauregard, Allen and Vernon. We are lifelong residents of southwest Louisiana and care deeply about the rights and wellbeing of our neighbors and community.

Maritime law is a complex area of the law. Much of the law governing offshore and maritime injury comes from the Jones Act (the Merchant Marine Act of 1920), the Longshoreman and Harbor Workers Compensation Act, the Death on the High Seas Act, and General Maritime Law. Serious injury to a seaman impacts the victim not only physically, but also emotionally and financially. The impacts of a serious maritime injury, including immediate and long term issues that can affect the life of an injured seaman and his family, can remain long after the maritime injury occurred. If you have been seriously injured in an maritime accident due to the negligence of another person or your employer, you owe it to yourself to be as informed as possible about long term issues and costs that may result from your maritime injury. If you are a seaman who has suffered a maritime injury while working as crew of a tanker, tug, barge, trawler, jack-up rig, semi-submersible rig, mobile offshore drilling rig, or other vessel, know your rights under the Jones Act and other maritime laws and contact a maritime lawyer for help.