IVIV 'Actually I'm a marine lawyer"

[Mark Kohut]

OK....this opens so much....
What are some of the significances of Saunch's specialty in IV, in P's fiction? More locally, why did P give Doc a lawyer-friend with this specialty?

I'll start by repeating something I was once told: marine law
is one of the oldest specialties of the law, since the oceans
and its contested rights hae always been with us........