Michael J. Holland joined Condon & Forsyth in 1972. He is a partner and a member of the Management Committee. Mike concentrates his practice in tort and commercial litigation on behalf of the firm's airline clients.

He has had extensive experience handling major aviation accident investigations and litigation. He is lead counsel for the airline in the May 2008 TACA Flight 390 accident and was counsel for the airline in the September 1998 Swissair Flight 111 accident and the January 1990 Avianca Flight 52 accident.

Mike also has significant experience in major litigation involving foreign air carriers in state and federal courts and has represented air carriers in liability litigation in the United States for more than thirty years. He has represented domestic and foreign airlines in virtually every conceivable type of airline matter through the years, including antitrust litigation, hull claims, FAA enforcement actions and aircraft financing.

Mike also has significant experience defending class action litigation on behalf of aviation clients. He is currently representing a major foreign airline in a class action arising out of alleged overcharges in the sale of air cargo and passenger tickets and is defending a maintenance and overhaul facility in a class action case seeking damages for the release of toxic smoke and fumes into the atmosphere. He recently secured the dismissal of class action litigation against two airlines that were alleged to have improperly collected a tourism tax.

Mike has been a guest lecturer in Aviation Law at Seton Hall Law School; St. John's University Law School; Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; the Ontario Bar Association; the World Airline's Customer Relations Association (Lisbon, 1998); and several American Bar Association Annual Meetings. He is the past Chair of the Aviation and Space Law Committee of the Tort and Insurance Practice (TIPS) Section of the American Bar Association. He lectures frequently on aviation law before bar associations and industry groups. He was appointed to a Task Force by the TIPS Section of the American Bar Association to draft regulations to submit to the Justice Department to implement the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, enacted as part of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act.

He is admitted to the bar of New York (1973), the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1973), the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits (1974), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1974) and the U.S. Supreme Court (1987).

Mike is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Aeronautical Law Committee, 1981-1983); the New York State (Sub-Chairman, Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law Section, Aviation Committee, 1985- ) and American Bar Associations; the New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Committee on Aeronautical Law, 1979- ) (Chairman, Committee on Aeronautical Law, 1982-1984); the International Association of Defense Counsel. Mike has served as Arbitrator, Small Claims Court, Civil Court of the City of New York (1983-1987) and as Arbitrator, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, (1993- ).

Mike has been honorable mentioned in The International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers (2009-2011).

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (J.D., 1972) and Le Moyne College (B.A., 1969), where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees. From 1972-1978, Mike was a 1st Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve.