Mr. Kramer has been involved in recreational boating since childhood and, as an attorney licensed in Michigan (1976) and Wisconsin (1989), has practiced maritime law and admiralty law with commercial marine and recreational boating clients throughout the Midwest and has mediated a wide variety of cases since 2009.
His experience includes representing private marinas, marine insurance interests, yacht brokers, recreational boaters, marine surveyors, ferry operators, as well as salvage, marine construction, and municipal marina interests.
He has served as president of the West Michigan Marine Association, a group of marine industry professionals, and Trident Marine, Inc., a vessel documentation service. He has participated on the Legal Committee of U.S. Sailing, the national authority for sanctioned yacht racing in the United States, and has been a Proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, participates on the B.O.A.T./US Arbitration Panel, and is a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bars of Michigan and Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Association of Mediators. He has mentored Marquette University School of Law (Milwaukee) students in their Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic and volunteered with Northern Community Mediation, serving northwest lower Michigan.
