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 is well versed in claims involving the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and federal preemption. Her appellate experience includes successfully serving as co-lead appellate counsel in El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd. v. Tseng, 525 U.S. 155 (1999), and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse v. JetBlue Airways Corp., No. D045568, 2005 WL 3118798 (Cal. Ct. App. Nov. 22, 2005).
Ms. Nemsick also counsels clients on airline charter agreements, the Air Carrier Access Act, preemption matters and treaty issues. She was a regular contributor to the Aviation & Space Law Committee Newsletter for the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section from 1994-2006. She currently serves as co-editor of the ABA's Aviation Litigation newsletter, and Holland & Knight's Aviation newsletter Centerline. Ms. Nemsick has written articles on various aviation-related issues, including federal preemption, choice-of-law, privacy rights, the Warsaw Convention, forum non conveniens, the Air Carrier Access Act, and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) litigation. She recently authored the chapter "Navigating Through the Chaos of a Choice of Law Analysis in Aviation Accident Litigation," for the ABA treatise Litigating the Aviation Case From Pre-Trial to Closing Argument (3d ed. 2008).
She also served as Articles Editor for the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary while attending St. John's University School of Law.