George M. Chalos is the principal and founding member of CHALOS & Co, P.C. Mr. Chalos received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and his Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of Law. Mr. Chalos has been engaged in the practice of maritime, admiralty and insurance law for over twenty (20) years, and is experienced in all facets of civil and criminal maritime matters, maritime attachment and vessel arrest, enforcement of maritime liens, casualty, and pollution response, Marpol, Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA ’90”), Clean ·water Act (“CWA”), and environmental matters, and other international maritime and commercial transactions. Mr. Chalos has been counsel of record in over eleven hundred (1100) civil and criminal maritime matters, in over twenty (20) different U.S. District and Appellate Courts. He also has extensive experience arbitrating matters before tribunals of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators (“SMA”) in New York; has conducted numerous court-ordered and private mediations; and has assisted in presenting claims before the London High Court of Justice.