Admiralty and maritime law involves cases related to navigation and commerce on oceans, rivers, and lakes. Admiralty and maritime cases can involve injuries to longshoremen and vessel crew members, contracts for cargo shipping, vessel collisions, and cruise ship passenger injuries. If your issues involves ships and shipping, business or commerce transacted at sea, finds and salvage, the duties, rights, and liabilities of ship owners, ship masters, and other maritime workers, it is within the realm of admiralty law.
Platteville is the largest city in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin. The population was 9,989 at the 2000 census. According to a 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, the population has grown to 10,297. The city is home to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.