Judith ("Judy") R. Nemsick practices in the Litigation Section. Her areas of practice primarily involve aviation, mass disasters, product liability, privacy rights, and insurance.
Ms. Nemsick has extensive experience with complex aviation disaster litigation, having represented air carriers in multidistrict litigation arising from, for example, the Aviateca Flight 901 accident near San Salvador, El Salvador; the Swissair Flight 111 accident near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; and the American Airlines Flight 587 accident near Belle Harbor, New York. She has extensive experience litigating claims governed by the Warsaw Convention and other international aviation treaties. Her appellate experience includes, for example, representing El Al Israel Airlines as one of the lead appellate attorneys in the case of El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tseng, 525 U.S. 155 (1999), and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse v. JetBlue Airways Corp., 2005 WL 3118798 (Cal. App. Nov. 22, 2005).