Markus Oberg

MARKUS OBERG joined LeGros Buchanan & Paul as an associate in March 2004, after a ten-year career in marine insurance. Involved in all aspects of the Firm's litigation and trial practice, his practice primarily involves maritime tort litigation, including Jones Act personal injury defense. Markus’s practice also includes insurance coverage resolution; maritime liens, vessel arrests, and claim investigations; environmental claims; commercial real estate leases and transactions; and employment practices.

Markus grew up in Sweden and Australia, is fluent in Swedish, and speaks German. He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Irvine (1994). He spent the next seven years underwriting and managing marine insurance claims in the Pacific Northwest for an international insurance company, and then formed his own company to manage insurance claims on a national basis for several Lloyd’s of London Syndicates. In 2003, while running his own company and attending law school at night, Markus received his J.D. from Seattle University School of Law cum laude. Markus brings the unique and practical perspective of a client to each case and transaction, and his professional experience is of particular value to the Firm’s maritime personal injury defense and insurance coverage practice. In his spare time, Markus coaches youth soccer in Seattle, and enjoys a variety of outdoor activities with his wife and three children.

Markus is admitted to practice in Washington State (2004), before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi, the Puget Sound Maritime Claims Association (PSMCA), and the Marine Insurance Association of Seattle (MIAS).