Experience
Lisa J. Savitt is Of Counsel in Akerman Senterfitt's Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the Litigation and Global Practice Groups. She previously was a partner at Blank Rome LLP where she focused her practice on international litigation. She has experience representing foreign and domestic companies in matters involving complex legal, regulatory and technical issues in state and federal courts including multi-party complex products liability, tort cases, intellectual property and trademark matters and commercial disputes. Ms. Savitt started her career at the Federal Aviation Administration, Regional Counsel’s Office and worked for three years at Beaumont & Son in London.

Ms. Savitt is currently the Membership Officer of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and a member of the Council of the Section of International Law. She is a former President and founding member of the International Aviation Womens Association. She was also a member of a high-level delegation of the American Bar Association International Legal Exchange Program briefing trip to London and Paris for an international alternative dispute resolution symposium.

Notable Client Work

• Defended UK aerospace bearing manufacturer in complex product liability action in federal court in Texas arising out of helicopter crash in Gulf of Mexico resulting in manufacturer paying nominal settlement
• Successfully converted $24 million foreign judgment of shipping company against Yugoslavian bank into U.S. judgment, dealt with enforcement of judgment issues including application OFAC sanctions, and handled attempts by Yugoslavian bank to transfer assets from the United States in U.S. Bankruptcy Court ancillary proceeding
• Represented several companies in claims against software vendors for breach of contract and breach of warranty arising out of licensing agreements and successfully expanded remedies available for such claims
• Assisted U.S. aviation company in obtaining clearances from Transportation Security Administration and Department of Justice for foreign pilots for contract valued at over $10 million

Published Work and Lectures

• Attorney-Client Privilege For In-House Counsel Is Not Absolute In Foreign Jurisdictions, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (October 2007)
• An Inconvenient Forum? Practice Tips For Foreign Defendants Who Find Themselves In U.S. Courts - 36 International Law News 24 (Summer 2007)
• Personal Jurisdiction and the Foreign Defendant - 34 International Law News 17 (Fall 2005)
• What!! Now You Want All My E-mails??? Electronic Discovery in Litigation and What it Means for the European Company - ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting (October 2005)
• Product Liability / General Aviation Issues - ABA Section of Litigation, Aviation Litigation Committee CLE Seminar - Moderator(June 2005)
• Where the Sea Meets the Sky: Admiralty Jurisdiction in the Aviation Case - For the Defense, DRI (August 2004)
• Update on the Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters - 34 Tort & Insurance Practice L.J. 519 (Winter 1999)(author)
• Foreign Judgment Recognized in New York Court Even Though Assets Blocked by U.S. Sanctions - International Trade Law Quarterly (1999) (author)

Bar Admissions

1992, District of Columbia
1984, Pennsylvania
1982, New York

Court Admissions

U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Maryland

Professional Memberships and Activities

• American Bar Association - Section of International Law, Membership;
  Officer, Co-Chair 2007 Spring Meeting - Washington, D.C.
• American Bar Association - Litigation Section
• American Bar Association - Tort Insurance Practice Section
• American Bar Association - Forum on Air and Space Law
• DC Women's Bar Association
• Aeroclub of Washington, D.C.
• International Aviation Club
• Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Advisory Board
• Arbitral Women
• Aviation Insurance Association, Director, AttorneysDivision, 1999-2001
• International Aviation Womens Association, Founder;
  President 1993-1995

Education
1981: J.D., New York Law School
1978: B.A., George Washington University, Major(s): East Asian Studies / Economics