The Expert Institute has a law blog competition between 250 law blogs.
The institute received more than 2,000 nominations for the "Best Legal Blog Contest." It then narrowed the field to 250 blogs which it is calling the "most exciting, entertaining, and informative legal blogs online today."
Cruise Law News was placed in the
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Yesterday I announced that we will begin regularly featuring photos and videos from crew members of the conditions which they face working on cruise ships.
There was a spirited debate which followed on our Facebook page about the issue.
One cruise passenger commented: " No one forces these people to work on the cruise ships.
Over the years, crew members have sent me lots of stories about what it’s really like to work on a cruise ship. Lots of time they send photos and videos of the working conditions they face.
It’s not the pretty images shown to the guests who occasionally go on behind-the-scene tours.
"Ship life" is how
This morning Cruise Law News hit a milestone when the 150,000th person “liked” our Facebook page.
The motto of this blog is “everything the cruise lines don’t want you to know.” Our main goal is to educate the public about dangers on cruise ships and in ports of call that the cruise industry would
A former crew member posted photographs saying that the Liberty of the Seas hid equipment, pots, pans and other items from the galley during an USPH inspection last December. You can see photographs of the galley equipment hidden throughout the ship (primarily in the crew quarter) on our Facebook page.
Two years ago Silversea
Over 100 people are ill with vomiting and diarrhea aboard the Celebrity Equinox cruise ship which is returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a ten day cruise, according to cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 95 out of 2896 passengers (3.28%) and 7 out of 1209 crew members (0.58%)
People complain that I write only negative stories about the cruise lines. Crime, fires, overboard passengers, greedy cruise executives, mistreatment of crew members, blah, blah, blah, does it ever end they ask?
It’s a good question, I suppose. Lots of things go wrong during cruises. I have an endless source of materials for stories to
In 2014, 1,718,131 people read 6,104,186 people pages of Cruise Law News.
Our busiest day was April 7, 2014 when over 110,000 visitors read our article when we were the first to report on the murder of a NCL crew member in Roatan, Honduras near the port.
Crime in ports of call was
Today I was excited to read that Cruise Law News has been picked as one of the "12 Awesome Law Blogs Of 2014" by the premier law publication Above the Law.
Admittedly, we were the twelfth and last pick, but beggars can’t be choosers. Here the write up:
No attorney’s passion shows
Today we enjoyed a great day in St. Petersburg, Florida at my father-in-law’s house.
The weather was amazing and our extended families congregated and enjoyed our time together.
Our extended family ranges in age from 1 year old to 93 years old. There was lot’s of laughter, hugging and fellowship.
Thanks to all of our
Cruise Law News just celebrated our five year anniversary.
It’s difficult to remember a time when we did not have a blog to comment on the ins-and-outs of the cruise industry and the ports of call where the cruise ships unload their passengers. Since 2009, I’ve written over 2,100 articles and received over 8,000 comments from
Travel Weekly just published an "interview" of Royal Caribbean cruise executive Richard Fain as part of the cruise line’s promotional build-up to the arrival of the Quantum of the Seas.
it’s hyperbolic, razzle-dazzle, gobbledygook at it’s finest.
Royal Caribbean has been been invading crew gratuities for years, doubling up officers in what were previously
I returned from a two week vacation last week to find that our blog was picked as one of the top 20 cruise blogs by readers of USA TODAY.
The newspaper and "10 Best" are now asking the public to pick the best blog out of this group. At the end of the voting on
Last month, 247,433 people read 843,370 pages of Cruise Law News (per Google Analytics). That’s a record month for us.
If our readership continues to grow, as it has done over the years, we are on track to having 3,000,000 people reading over 10,000,000 pages of our blog a year.
Our blog is currently the
Effective Monday May 5, 2014, Royal Caribbean will create a new risk management department which will be managed by a certified public accountant, Tom Burke. Mr. Burke joined the cruise line in 2003 and most recently worked as the Vice President of Audit and Advisory Services. He was previously a manager at the accounting firm
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This week, our social media presence reached a milestone.
The Cruise Law News Facebook page reached 100,000 "likes."
The majority of our Facebook fans are from outside of the U.S. We have tens of thousands of crew members who have "liked" us. We receive a great deal of information from crew members regarding a wide
What are the top law blogs? I suppose it depends on who you ask. Everyone has an opinion, at least lawyers who have blogs do.
I’m listing the supposedly most popular law blogs based on supposedly objective criteria, using the Alexa ranking system which ranks blogs and websites based primarily on popularity. How many people
A number of news sources are reporting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) joined an investigation by the U.K. whether Princess Cruises’ Caribbean Princess cruise ship violated international pollution laws.
Bloomberg News states that Carnival Corporation announced that the DOJ joined an investigation being conducted by the U.K. Maritime & Coastguard Agency which had initiated
