At Keller Postman, Nicholas supports the firm’s mass tort and product liability practice through all phases of document discovery, including responsiveness, privilege, and confidentiality reviews, identifying key evidence for depositions and trial, privilege logging, and redaction of sensitive and personally identifiable information.
Before joining Keller Postman, Nicholas served at Leidos supporting the DOJ Civil Division’s Environmental Tort Litigation Section on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard cleanup. Nicholas optimized document review workflows, coordinated team communications with DOJ leadership, and contributed detailed written analysis to support DOJ trial attorneys on one of the government’s largest active environmental remediation matters.
Nicholas previously worked as a Litigation Support Attorney at major law firms in Washington, DC across a wide range of complex commercial matters including pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, antitrust, government contracts, and environmental torts.
Nicholas also served as Counsel at the Racial Justice Initiative of TimeBanks USA, representing families of students in school suspension proceedings and organizing a public forum on the school-to-prison pipeline featuring Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, national ACLU representatives, and DC officials.
Nicholas has represented whistleblowers terminated after raising concerns about misconduct by government employers, clients in child custody matters, and individuals facing employment discrimination, and provided litigation support on a case challenging agency approval of chemical weapons incineration.
Outside of legal practice, Nicholas has been an active tenant advocate, leading a multi-year accessibility compliance campaign on behalf of residents with disabilities and ensuring that vulnerable neighbors without internet access received time-critical legal notices.
At the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, Nicholas earned a Juris Doctor, was a Mason Civil Rights Scholar in the name of Julius Hobson, Sr., a recipient of a David A. Clarke Merit Scholarship, a Senior Editor of the law review, and an AmeriCorps grantee. At the University of Iowa Nicholas earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Theatre Arts. Nicholas is a member of the DC Bar.
"Representing whistleblowers who have been made to suffer for speaking truth to power reminded me that plaintiffs' attorneys matter because we are often the last recourse for people the system has already failed once."