For the Seventh Consecutive Year Martindale-Hubbell Awards Paul Stewart Client Distinction Award

  The Award highlights include 100% recommendations from all clients submitting reviews, and a 5.0/5.0 rating on all client ratings of all legal service categories by the Paul Stewart Logistics and Transportation Law Firm. Client Reviews   100%(5 recommendations)  5.0/5.0(5 reviews) Communication 5.0/5.0 Responsiveness 5.0/5.0 Quality of Service

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Major Retailer Now Requires Brokers to Indemnify them for their own Negligence…What’s Wrong with this Picture

[This article draws excerpt content from two of my previous articles here on this subject: Common Fallacies of Shipper-Broker-Carrier Contracting, December 2, 2022; and, 3PL Learns Real World Cost of Agreeing to Broad Form Indemnity, January 11,2023.] Recently, a major big-box retailer (“Shipper”) announced to intermodal and

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Common Fallacies of Shipper-Broker-Carrier Contracting

The Dilemma If you have participated in the third-party logistics sector as a shipper, broker, or carrier, you have likely seen the short-sighted transportation services agreement, which unnecessarily leverages brokers and carriers to accept defense and indemnity over issues that are not their responsibility. One version portends

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A “Double-Brokered”​ Load is Potentially Illegal and Breach of one or More Contracts…There is a Better Way.

Status is online Paul Stewart Logistics and Transportation Law/Commercial Transactions- Representing National Logistics Companies,Shippers and Carrier 55 articles In this time of severe limitation on over-the-road motor carrier capacity, the practice of “double-brokering” a load is rampant. Those interested in this article from the title most likely

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2019 Client Review Silver Award – Martindale Hubbell

Client Reviews   100%(5 recommendations)  5.0/5.0(5 reviews)   Communication 5.0/5.0 Responsiveness 5.0/5.0 Quality of Service 5.0/5.0 Recommended 5.0/5.0 Rated on 10/11/13 in Corporate Law. Mr. Stewart functions in a very professional manner and in my opinion is the “best” transportation attorney that I have encountered in my 41 years in

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