• Robert Parrish, a senior partner with the law firm of Moseley, Prichard, Parrish, Knight & Jones, has been elected the 48th president of the 3,000-member Maritime Law Association of the United States for 2012-14. The association was founded in 1899 to advance reforms to maritime law, facilitate justice in its administration and promote uniformity and harmony in shipping laws, regulations and practices of the nations involved in waterborne transportation. He has been with the firm since 1978.