Raymond Waid

Raymond Waid is a partner at the Liskow law firm, where he is Leader of the Maritime Industry Group and Co-Leader of the Maritime Practice Group.  He is a full-service maritime lawyer, representing clients in litigation, arbitration, and business transactions.  

The scope of his work includes recovering $2.25 billion for the State of Maryland as a result of the M/V DALI’s allision with the Baltimore Bridge, obtaining a complete defense judgment affirmed on appeal in the $120 million collision and oil spill involving M/T TINTOMARA and T/B MEL OLIVER, and representing the lead U.S. tug and barge company in construction of the first commercial scale offshore wind construction project in U.S. history. 

He is ranked in various legal industry publications such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers.  He has also been quoted in news articles on maritime industry developments by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and the Associated Press. 

Prior to attending law school, Waid served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the United States Navy, during which he was assigned to a destroyer homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.  He was promoted to Lieutenant while on active duty and to Lieutenant Commander while serving in the reserve during law school.

He received his J.D. from Tulane in 2007, where he completed the maritime law certificate and served as Senior Articles Editor of the Maritime Law Journal. He holds a B.A. in political science and psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

In his role as a Tulane professor, he received the Monte M. Lemann Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018, a law school honor bestowed by student vote, for his work teaching Tulane’s Carriage of Goods by Sea course.