Judith L. Holdsworth
holdsworth@dhlaw.com

Judith L. Holdsworth is a German lawyer ( Rechtsanwältin ) who has worked in the fields of international commercial and trade dispute resolution, U.S. and European Customs law, international civil procedure, and private international law since 1995.  She was a member of the litigation group at the Frankfurt office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue before joining deKieffer & Horgan's German office in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1998.  In 2005, she transferred her practice to the Washington D.C. office of deKieffer & Horgan. 

Ms. Holdsworth has assisted in numerous trade cases before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission on behalf of German and other European clients.  She has extensive experience in advising clients of U.S. and European Customs law and on German commercial and business law and in drafting commercial contracts.  She represented the Government of Jordan in its claim against Iraq before the United Nations Compensation Commission for damages arising from the invasion of Kuwait. 

Ms. Holdsworth earned her B.A. degree at Heidelberg College (Ohio) and completed her law studies at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany (First State Law Examinations, 1992).  She received training as a law clerk ( Referendarin ) with the Ministry of Justice of the Saarland from 1993-1995 (Second State Law Examinations, 1995).  In April 2004, she sat for and passed the examination administered by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to be licensed as a U.S. Customs broker. 

Ms. Holdsworth is a member of the bar of the Saarland, Germany.  She is also a sworn interpreter and translator in German and English for the courts of justice and notaries public of the Saarland.  She is a member of the Congress of Fellows, Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria.  She served as lecturer (1990-2002) and adjunct professor (2002-2004) on English Legal Terminology at the law department of the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany.

She is the assistant editor of Transnational Litigation: A Practitioners Guide (Oceana Publications 1997), a two-volume treatise covering civil procedures in 20 jurisdictions; the co-author of the chapter on Germany in the same treatise; and the author of Practical Applications of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG") available at http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cisg/biblio/holdsworth.html.