Jill Willhoft has built a distinguished legal career serving maritime companies, insurers, and a diverse range of businesses throughout the Gulf Coast and beyond. Renowned for her deep industry knowledge, strategic insight, and practical problem-solving abilities, she is a trusted advisor who helps clients anticipate challenges, mitigate risk, and resolve complex legal issues with efficiency and precision.

For decades, Jill's practice has centered on maritime and admiralty law, encompassing personal injury, property damage, cargo disputes, limitation of liability and exoneration actions, environmental spill response and remediation, and other maritime-related matters. She also has significant experience handling complex insurance and excess exposure claims arising from maritime and oil and gas operations, advising insurers and insureds on coverage issues, risk transfer, indemnity obligations, and high-value losses. In addition, Jill represents clients in a broad range of general and commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes, business torts, employment disputes, and other complex commercial conflicts. Her practice further includes insurance coverage analysis and litigation involving primary, excess, umbrella, and specialty insurance policies.

Jill has successfully represented creditors in bankruptcy proceedings across multiple jurisdictions and has extensive experience handling asbestos litigation and other mass tort claims. Her proven ability to manage large-scale, document-intensive litigation has prepared her to effectively oversee class actions and other complex cases requiring meticulous organization and strategic execution.

Drawing on her extensive experience as general counsel for numerous companies and corporations, Jill brings a uniquely comprehensive perspective to business operations and transactions. She advises clients throughout every phase of the corporate lifecycle, from entity formation and governance to dissolution. Working closely with financial institutions, insurers, and other stakeholders, she ensures her clients' interests remain protected while facilitating seamless transactions and successful business outcomes. Her combination of litigation strength, transactional sophistication, insurance industry knowledge, and business acumen makes her an invaluable partner to organizations navigating today's increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape.

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