United States Naval Academy graduate and California Bar #108347, Preston Easley spent five years on active naval duty—three as a frigate deck officer and two as a patrol boat skipper—before building a maritime injury practice that has produced landmark decisions at the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Catastrophic injuries to longshoremen, tugboat crewmen, and shipyard workers under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act and the Jones Act anchor the docket, with overflow trial-team support coming from Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire LLP on the largest co-counsel matters. The firm's Defense Base Act practice covers civilian U.S. defense contractor employees injured in war zones, an extension of Longshore Act jurisdiction that few California plaintiff firms litigate. Over-the-road trucking crashes, refinery worker burns, and construction site fall cases run alongside the maritime work, with referrals out to West Coast Trial Lawyers when an injured worker needs a Los Angeles-based PI co-counsel north of the harbor. Three offices serve the Pacific coast injury bar: San Pedro on the LA harbor, 3023 First Avenue in Hillcrest 92103, and a Honolulu location for Hawaii Stevedores and inter-island maritime claimants. Government maritime claims against the Navy, Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Coast Guard—suits requiring Tucker Act or Suits in Admiralty Act jurisdictional briefing before the merits even reach a courtroom—represent the firm's most procedurally complex casework.