Nick is a shareholder and principal with the firm’s civil trial and appellate group. He is currently the President of the Michael McDonnell Inn of Court, and a member of the executive committee of the Trial Lawyer’s Section of the Collier County Bar Association. Nick is also a member of the executive committee of the Trial Lawyer’s Section of the Florida Bar Association, where he serves as an editor of The Florida Discovery Handbook and a faculty member of the annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Program and the annual mock trial competition. He also serves as a court-appointed member of the local rules committee of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.Nick primarily handles cases that include commercial, business and real-estate disputes, as well as probate and trust litigation. His representative cases include Fiddler’s Creek v. Naples Lending Group; SDS-IC v. Florida Concentrates International; Whitesell v. BMW AG; KZS Enterprise v. Fine Gems International; In re Neurontin Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation; In re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation; Benedict v. Altria Group, Inc.; and Scott v. American Tobacco Company.Nick has served the Boy Scouts of America for several years as an Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 2001 in Naples, Florida, where his sons completed their trail to Eagle Scout and became brotherhood members of the Order of the Arrow. His oldest son is a cadet with the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Nick and his wife are active members of the West Point Parents Club of Southwest Florida and the West Point Society of Naples.

While relocating to Southwest Florida and joining The Florida Bar, Nick assisted Judge Chappell with various matters on her civil litigation docket when her career law clerk was on a medical leave of absence.

Nick previously practiced with the international law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, where he represented some of the world’s largest consumer product and pharmaceutical manufacturers in product liability, commercial, mass tort, class action, and public-interest litigation throughout the United States and Canada. His experience includes partnering with corporate executives and experts in numerous fields of business and science, and successfully litigating and resolving a wide variety of contract, tort and statutory claims. He has the unique experience of participating in the defense of a three-year jury trial of a statewide, medical-monitoring class action, and he had a central role in the resolution by settlement of multiple nationwide class actions against more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies in a years-long multi-district proceeding. He also secured the certification of a class action and permanent injunction for the benefit of thousands of special-needs foster children in a landmark federal civil rights suit.