Ethan Zubic serves as Assistant Chair of the Admiralty & Maritime Section of the Firm and focuses his practice on commercial litigation in a wide range of practice areas, from cooperative purchasing enterprises to property damage to legacy litigation, as well as admiralty and maritime law, insurance coverage and defense, real estate litigation and commercial transactions.  He has handled cases involving property insurance, ocean marine insurance coverage disputes, subrogation claims, marine pollution insurance defense, commercial transactions and general litigation in Louisiana state and federal courts.

In law school, Ethan served as President of the Maritime Law Society and co-authored “A Navigational Chart through Wrongful Death in Admiralty” a graphic illustration of the proper beneficiaries and their rights, remedies and damages for a wrongful death claim of Jones Act Seamen and Longshore & Harbor workers.

• Louisiana
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of LA
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of LA
• U.S. District Court, Western District of LA

• Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D. 2012
• Millsaps College, M.B.A.
• Millsaps College, B.S.

• New Orleans Bar Association - Executive Council Member of and Bar Ambassador for the Young Lawyers Section
• New Orleans Bar Association Inn of Court - Member
• Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute - Port Director, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Propeller Club of New Orleans
• Maritime Law Association
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• Professional Landmen's Association of New Orleans (PLANO)

• Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ for Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation - Environmental, Litigation - Real Estate and Transportation Law; listed in Best Lawyers since 2021
• Charles A. Sewell Award
• Selected to Louisiana Super Lawyers – Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2017 to Present
• Arthur Crais Family Award
• Selected to Ones To Watch, New Orleans CityBusiness, 2017

NEWS

• Thirty Gordon Arata Lawyers Included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023
• Twenty-One Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in 2023 Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
• Gone with the Wind: Louisiana’s Legislative Foray into Wind Energy Projects in the Gulf of Mexico
• 28 Gordon Arata Lawyers Recognized in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America—2 Named Lawyers of the Year
• Congratulations to Our Lawyers Recognized in the Inaugural Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
• R. Ethan Zubic, Alex B. Rothenberg and Meghan K. Flanery Become Members of the Firm
• Twenty-One Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in 2020 Louisiana Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
• Twenty-three Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Lawyers Selected for Inclusion in 2018 Louisiana Super Lawyers & Rising Stars

PUBLICATIONS

• Gone with the Wind: Louisiana’s Legislative Foray into Wind Energy Projects in the Gulf of Mexico, Drill Deeper Blog, June 23, 2022
• A Landman's Ignorance of the Law Offers No Shield to Forfeiture, Drill Deeper Blog, February 24, 2002
• BOEM’s Lease Sale 256 Reflects Operator Enthusiasm Despite Challenges Created by COVID Drill Deeper Blog, November 2020
• How Marine Operators Are Coping with COVID-19 Drill Deeper Blog, April 2020
• Texas Supreme Court Refuses to Inject “Reasonableness” Standard when Interpreting Unqualified Consent-to-Assign Clause Drill Deeper Blog, December 2019
• BSEE and BOEM Pull Primary Fiscal Lever to Spur Shelf Activity Drill Deeper Blog, December 2019
• U.S. 5th Circuit Holds Tug to be "Operator" of Dumb Barges under OPA 90 Drill Deeper Blog, November 2018
• U.S. 5th Circuit Affirms Fuel Supplier Does Not Have Maritime Lien for Bunkers Drill Deeper Blog, July 2018
• United States Coast Guard Issues Marine Safety Alert and Strongly Recommends Inspection of Personal Flotation Devices Drill Deeper Blog, June 2018
• Don't Get Caught in a Covfefe: Social Media Traps Presenter, Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Annual Duck Lunch and Seminar, October 2017
• A Primer on Consent-To-Assignment Clauses Under Louisiana Law Drill Deeper Blog,  August 7, 2017
• Pure Versus Contract Salvage – Narrowing the Scope of an ‘Agreement to Volunteer’ Bar to Pure Salvag, 10 Loy. Mar. L.J. 145, 2011
• A Navigational Chart Through Wrongful Death in Admiralty, 11 Loy. Mar. L.J. 327, 2013