About Terence Cox

Terence S. Cox is a founding partner of CWL, formed in 1997. Prior to forming CWL, Mr. Cox was a partner with Derby, Cook Quinby & Tweedt in San Francisco.

Mr. Cox represents a variety of business interests, including entrepreneurs, shipping lines, property management enterprises, marinas, tug and barge companies, municipalities, property owners, transportation concerns, manufacturers and employers in various trades. He has been lead counsel in complex trials and appellate matters in state and federal courts throughout the Western States, including Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, and has acted as an arbitrator and mediator. His expertise includes catastrophic maritime injury claims and deaths, loss of vessels by fire and grounding, vessel collisions, products liability and salvage. He has tried some of the more prominent limitation of liability and salvage cases on the West Coast over the past thirty years. He has tried more than 80 cases in these fields and has prevailed in 90+% of his cases.

Mr. Cox has been “A.V.” rated for more than 25 years with the Martindale-Hubbell national attorneys’ listing and has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. This honor is awarded to those lawyers who are among the top 5% of Northern California attorneys based upon input from their peers and through independent research conducted by Law & Politics.