Kathy has extensive experience representing numerous clients in litigation before federal and state trial and appellate courts. Kathy also has considerable experience in mediation and arbitration of commercial disputes in both state and federal forums. She is a trained mediator in commercial matters and also a trained facilitator working with not for-profit organizations.
Kathy is listed in both Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers and its Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, as well as in The Legal 500 editions on litigation for her work in Insurance and Reinsurance. Since 2006, Kathy has been selected annually as a New York Super Lawyer in the fields of Insurance Law and Aviation & Aerospace.
She is listed as a Leading Aviation Attorney in the 2021 Aviation Expert Guide and as a Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Attorney in the 2021 Insurance and Reinsurance Expert Guide. Kathy was also selected as a Leading Aviation, as well as Insurance and Reinsurance Attorney, in the 2023 Women in Business Law Expert Guide after nomination by some of the world’s leading in-house counsel and her peers.
Who’s Who Legal has noted Kathy for her “excellent mediation and dispute resolution techniques” and as “consistently brilliant” for her work specializing in aviation and aerospace disputes and in Who’s Who Legal: Elite 100, she was noted as “well reputed” in dispute resolution and for her “in depth knowledge in insurance matters.” Kathy also has been selected as being among the top 20% of all Lawyers in WWL Thought Leaders USA 2024 for her distinguished expertise in the aviation, aerospace, insurance, and reinsurance industries.
Kathy has published and lectured widely on legal issues affecting the airline, aerospace, insurance, and reinsurance industries. She has participated as a speaker at numerous conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the Aviation Insurance Association and various bar and other organizations around the world. She also has acted as an instructor for the IATA Training Program offering certification in aviation insurance.
Kathy is one of the authors of the leading international authoritative treatise on aviation insurance, currently in its fourth edition, Margo on Aviation Insurance, 2014 and in the process of updating this highly-regarded work for a fifth edition. She also is currently one of the editors of Shawcross & Beaumont Air Law, and is the author of chapters on aviation insurance in the New York State Bar Association’s Insurance Law Practice (chapters on Aviation and Space Insurance). She is also co-author of the chapter “An Aviation Insurance Primer: An Overview for the Aviation Practitioner” in the American Bar Association publication Litigating the Aviation Case: From Pre-Trial to Closing Argument.
She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association Internationale De Droit Des Assurances (AIDA International Association for Insurance Law), the New York Womens Bar Association (NYWBA), the International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA), The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) and Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society (Fellow).
Kathy is a former Member of the Board of Trustees of Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, and voted Trustee Emerita for her exemplary service. She was honored by the NYWBA with The Doris S. Hoffman Service Award. The award is given to NYWBA members who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and commitment to serving the Association and enhancing the status of women in society and the law. She is also a founding member of IAWA and has served as a former President, Board and Advisory Board Member. In 2012, Kathy received the International Aviation Womens Association’s first “IAWA Aviation Woman of Excellence Award.” Kathy also served as President and Board member of the New York Womens Bar Association Foundation.