Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Blair Kaminsky represents clients in complex, high stakes commercial litigation and investigatory matters. She is widely respected for her leadership and advocacy in litigation with wide-ranging social and economic impacts. Crain’s New York Business has recognized Blair as a Notable Litigator & Trial Attorney and Notable Woman in Law, and her clients have described her to Benchmark Litigation as a “fantastic litigator who provides thoughtful, spot-on advice” and “manages enormous cases with creativity and enthusiasm.” Chambers USA has recognized her for general commercial litigation in New York since 2022, with clients and peers stating she “does a remarkable job in court,” is “absolutely top-notch, smart as a whip,” and “sees the forest, the trees, and the underbrush.”

In ongoing, heavily contested multi-forum litigation, Blair represents Chubb on claims brought by major manufacturers, the nation’s largest drug distributors, and its largest pharmacy chains seeking coverage for governmental budgetary impacts arising from the national opioid epidemic. Blair and the HSG team have secured multiple summary judgment, forum, and discovery victories for Chubb, including in the Ninth Circuit and the Delaware Supreme Court. She also represents Chubb in litigation concerning Mattel’s recalled Rock ‘n Play sleeper, and in a dispute with Meta concerning social-media addiction lawsuits.

Among other engagements, Blair has represented IBM in obtaining a complete dismissal of a putative class action under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA, , and a governmental entity as well as bank trustees on mortgage-backed securities claims arising out of the 2008 recession, helping to recover billions of dollars for taxpayers and investors. Blair also represents Visa in multi-district class action antitrust litigation filed on behalf of merchants, as well as in opt-out cases brought by the world’s largest retailers, relating to network rules at the heart of the Visa system. The firm will serve as lead trial counsel to Visa against six behemoth retailers in October 2025 in the Southern District of New York.

Blair has represented elite hedge funds and others in white collar matters as well as other confidential engagements and has represented high-profile clients in the Delaware Court of Chancery and other business courts across the country. Blair regularly advises and represents clients on shareholder matters, bankruptcy and restructuring, high value partnership and employment disputes, and other matters requiring sophisticated advice and tenacious advocacy.

She is a member of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg’s four-member Management Committee and plays a leadership role in the firm’s marketing and recruiting efforts, which have brought diverse and talented lawyers to the firm and was instrumental in the development of HSG’s formal mentoring program.

Blair was previously a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she represented JPMorgan in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy litigation and NYSE Euronext in litigation over a contemplated $10 billion merger that would have created the world’s largest stock market. Blair clerked for the Hon. Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

New York

New Jersey

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2008; Supervising Editor, Harvard Law Review)

University of Pennsylvania (B.A., summa cum laude, 2005)