​Howard M. Widis is a trial lawyer concentrating in property subrogation and inland/ocean marine cases. Howard attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1973 and a law degree in 1977.  He is a graduate of the Patterson School at University of Kentucky where he received a Masters of Diplomacy and International Commerce in 1978. 

Howard has worked as in-house counsel for a steamship line headquartered in Chicago and in the New York and San Francisco offices of the U.S. correspondent for various British and Japanese Protection & Indemnity Clubs.