Judy Nemsick is a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group of Holland & Knight's New York office. Her practice is focused primarily on complex litigation matters, with emphasis on air disaster litigation, class-action lawsuits, and privacy issues. She is part of the team representing Air France in multidistrict litigation arising out of the Flight 447 accident in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, and has represented air carriers in past litigation relating to the American Airlines Flight 587 accident near Belle Harbor, New York and the Swissair Flight 111 accident near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.
She has significant experience representing U.S. and foreign air carriers in civil litigation, including claims involving wrongful death and personal injury, premises liability, passenger delay, cargo liability, and breach of contract. Ms. Nemsick's appellate experience includes successfully serving as co-lead counsel in El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tseng, 525 U.S. 155 (1999), and in Privacy Rights Clearinghouse v. JetBlue Airways Corp., 2005 WL 3118798 (Cal. App. Nov. 22, 2005). She recently argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on preemption issues involving the Airline Deregulation Act.