Leo G Kailas

Bio

Mr Kailas was admitted to the bar in New York in 1974 and is admitted to practice in the Southern and Eastern District Federal Courts of New York and in the First, Second, Seventh and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. He joined Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher in 1973 as a litigation associate. In 1977, he joined Varet & Fink PC (formerly Milgrim Thomajan & Lee PC) where he became a member in 1980 and he continued to work as a member of that firm and its successors until 1995 when he joined Piper, Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP. Mr Kailas joined the firm in February, 2000 as a member. Mr Kailas has first-chaired more than seventy-five completed trials and arbitrations before courts and arbitral panels throughout the United States. He handles a wide variety of international, maritime and complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Recently, he represented the prevailing party in a multi-million dollar dispute arising under an electrical power supply agreement and he also recently served as an arbitrator in a major dispute under an oil supply agreement. In addition, Mr Kailas has also represented a major US defense contractor in the negotiation of a series of vessel construction and sales contracts. Mr Kailad was Chairman of the Admiralty Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1985 through 1988 and Secretary from 1984 through 1985. He is also a member of the Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, a member of the New York chapter of the American Inn of Court and a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, where he serves on the Arbitration Committee. Mr Kailas graduated from Columbia Law School with a JD and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Mr Kailas also holds a BA, cum laude, from Columbia College.