Oscar Johnson

Oscar N. Johnson, Jr. has served as Managing Partner and Global Managing Director of Higgs & Johnson since 2012. He is chair of the Litigation practice group and practises a full range of corporate and commercial law, specialising in commercial and civil litigation, admiralty law, insurance, and employment law. He regularly appears in the Supreme Court (High Court), and the Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and has appeared before the Privy Council. In 2017, his legal work in landmark court actions which clarified the principle of freedom of contract to limit liability in commercial maritime agreements in cases involving collisions, or allisions globally led to the firm’s selection as a finalist for the Law Firm of the Year category at the 2017 Lloyd’s List Americas Awards.