Mr. Dalton has extensive experience in litigating Admiralty, construction and products liability cases. He has tried numerous cases to verdict, as well as conducted over fifteen American Arbitration Association arbitrations. Mr. Dalton was defense counsel in Mateo v. M/S Kiso, 805 Fed. Supp. 761 (N.D. Cal. 1991), a watershed opinion on maritime jurisdiction.

• Defense verdicts in three third party personal injury cases brought under the Longshore and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act
• Defense verdicts in two Jones Act personal injury cases
• Defense verdict in a case alleging defective building construction
• Prevailing party in numerous binding arbitrations brought through the American Arbitration Association

State Bar of California
Maritime Law Association
Long Beach Legal Aid Foundation



United States District Court: Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California
United States Claims Court, Washington, D.C.



University of California at Los Angeles, J.D., 1975
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1970




Acret & Perrochet (Associate, Partner, Managing Partner) 1976-1990
Lillick & Charles, Long Beach (Senior Associate, Partner) 1990-1999
Mahoney, Coppenrath & Jaffe, Los Angeles (Of Counsel) 1999-2003
Law Offices of Sheldon J. Warren, Long Beach (Of Counsel) 2003-Present



Infantryman, 82nd Airborne Division, 1971-1972

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