Lara R. Sandberg

Biography Lara R. Sandberg has over ten years of experience working on complex settlements and commercial litigation, helping businesses and individuals receive the compensation they deserve. Since joining Eckland & Blando in 2015, Lara has devoted her practice to litigating and negotiating settlement recoveries for property owners damaged by the actions of the United States […]

Vince C. Reuter

Biography Vince C. Reuter represents clients in the areas of admiralty and maritime law, commercial litigation, and government contracts. He utilizes extensive trial and appellate experience to defend his client’s rights through litigation and, as importantly, to prevent disputes before they happen. This experience includes aggressively representing clients in state and federal court in suits […]

Samuel P. Blatchley

Biography Samuel P. Blatchley (Sam), a longstanding member of the New England maritime bar and Proctor in Admiralty, represents clients in litigation and transactional matters with a focus on admiralty and maritime, insurance, fisheries, and environmental law. He represents vessel owners and operators, insurers, charterers, construction and dredging firms, bunker suppliers, freight forwarders, inland carriers, […]

Daniel J. Cragg

Biography Daniel J. Cragg’s practice focuses on complex personal injury matters, commercial litigation, labor & employment law, factoring and asset-based lending, admiralty and maritime law, and procedurally complex cases, including cases against the government. Daniel has represented clients in State and Federal trial court and in administrative proceedings at the Federal, State and local levels. […]

Mark J. Blando

Biography Mark Blando has dedicated his career to pursuing all forms of litigation against government entities, with a focus on contract claims against the federal government. He had the singular opportunity to act as counsel in both of only two U.S. Supreme Court cases in modern times involving attempts by the federal government to avoid […]

Jeff H. Eckland

Biography Jeff Eckland focuses his practice on government contracts and general commercial litigation. He has litigated cases in state and federal courts across the country, including the state courts of California, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oregon, and Texas; the federal district courts of Alaska, Arizona, Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee; […]