For more than 35 years, Manfred has principally represented insurance underwriters in every aspect of admiralty and maritime litigation in the federal court system. He also focuses on international law.

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

United States Supreme Court

University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B., 1960

Kepler Gymnasium, Freiburg i. Br., Germany, Bacc., 1952

Fulbright Scholar, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1953-1954

University of Freiburg Law School, Freiburg i. Br., Germany, 1952-1953, 1954-1957

Referendar, 1957

American Bar Association

American College of Trial Lawyers

Baltimore City Bar Association

German American Law Association (GALA)

German Maritime Law Association

Maritime Administrative Bar Association

The Maritime Law Association of the United States

Executive Committee, 1982-1985

Committee on Carriage of Goods, Chair, 1987-1991

Committee on the Comité Maritime International

Committee on Continuing Legal Education

Committee on Maritime Fraud

Ad Hoc Committee on Drugs

Maryland State Bar Association

Virginia State Bar Association

Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers for General Litigation, 2007

Listed since 1989 in The Best Lawyers In America, Maritime Law Category (WoodWard/White, Inc.)

Associate Editor, American Maritime Cases

Author, "Die Lehre des Forum Non Conveniens im Amerikanischen Recht" (Schriften des Deutschen Vereins für Internationales Seerecht, Hamburg 1978)

Author, "Die amerikanische Rechtsprechung zum Schiffspfandrechtsgesetz von 1910 und seinen Novellen" (Schriften des Deutschen Vereins für Internationales Seerecht, Hamburg 1984)

Frequent lecturer on maritime subjects to bar and professional groups in the United States and abroad

Past Chair of the Admiralty Group of Ober|Kaler

Tulane Maritime Law Institute

Permanent Advisory Board

Titulary Member, Comité Maritime International, Antwerp, Belgium