Michael J. Holland joined Condon & Forsyth in 1972. He is a partner and a member of the Management Committee. Mike concentrates in tort and commercial litigation on behalf of the firm's airline clients. He has had extensive 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 published articles and lectured on aviation law at law schools and before airline industry groups.

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 was Program Co-Chair of the ABA National Institute on Aviation in Washington, D.C. in 1995 and 2000 and 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 has recently been 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- ). He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (J.D., 1972) and Le Moyne College (B.A., 1969). From 1972-1978, Mike was a 1st Lieutenant for the United States Army Reserve.