Jessica Kramer

Jessica Kramer is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Tampa office. Ms. Kramer has extensive experience assisting individuals and businesses with contract disputes, class action lawsuits, appeals, and other complex litigation.

Since joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Kramer has gained significant experience representing companies in data privacy litigation and has defended dozens of companies in high-stakes lawsuits arising from data breaches, a company's use of technology on company websites, and other privacy issues.

Ms. Kramer has experience litigating cases in arbitration proceedings as well as jury trials and bench trials throughout the State of Florida. She has also helped clients resolve disputes before or soon after litigation is initiated.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Kramer served as a federal law clerk for two years to the Honorable James S. Moody Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

At Holland & Knight, Ms. Kramer has achieved high levels of success for clients, including the following:

• successfully sought early dismissal of a lawsuit filed in connection with a data breach incident, alleging claims on behalf of a potential class of more than 1 billion people allegedly affected by the data breach incident
• successfully sought early dismissal of a lawsuit alleging claims on behalf of a nationwide class of people challenging the failure to receive refunds for a purchase
• successfully sought early dismissal of a lawsuit filed against a women's healthcare provider in connection with a data breach incident
• drafted and argued motions for summary judgment, which resulted in a Florida state court granting summary judgment in client's favor for a nearly $7 million breach of contract claim
• successfully obtained a court order dissolving a writ of garnishment
• obtained a partial summary judgment in favor of a governmental entity related to environmental remediation and a favorable ruling on related attorneys' fees issues

Ms. Kramer is passionate about community service and pro bono work. She regularly volunteers for pro bono cases from Bay Area Legal Services and other legal aid entities in Florida. Ms. Kramer is also an active member of The Florida Bar's Appellate Practice Section's Pro Bono Committee, where she has volunteered for appellate pro bono cases representing victims of domestic violence.

Ms. Kramer recently served on the Hillsborough Education Foundation's Governance Committee and completed a four-year mentorship of a local high school student through the Hillsborough Education Foundation's Take Stock in Children Program. Ms. Kramer mentors young lawyers and law students through the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers' mentoring program, Holland & Knight's 1L Mentoring Program and various UF Law mentoring programs. Each year, Ms. Kramer volunteers to coach law students preparing for upcoming moot court competitions across the country. Ms. Kramer has also helped coordinate the 9/11 National Day of Service for Holland & Knight's Tampa office.

While in law school, Ms. Kramer competed in national advocacy competitions and won several awards for brief-writing and oral argument. As a member of the Florida Moot Court Team at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, she competed at the 2016 John J. Gibbons National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition. At the competition, Ms. Kramer and her teammate placed first out of 43 other law schools and Ms. Kramer was awarded best final round oralist. Ms. Kramer and her teammate also placed first at the 29th Annual Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe Final Four competition, and Ms. Kramer was awarded best brief, best oralist, and best overall competitor.

In 2017, Ms. Kramer founded the University of Florida Levin College of Law's Bar Prep Mentoring Program, which provided support to University of Florida law school graduates studying for the Florida Bar examination. She actively participates in University of Florida student and alumni efforts as a member of the University of Florida’s Law Alumni Council and Florida Blue Key. In law school, Ms. Kramer received the Helen Gibel Blechman Memorial Award for earning the most community service hours in her graduating class.