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Nicholas focuses his practice on financial services, general commercial, and consumer litigation for financial services institutions and consumer lending companies. He has experience litigating complex commercial and consumer disputes in both state and federal court, as well as before various arbitration panels around the U.S. Nicholas also has experience successfully negotiating pre-litigation disputes to obtain favorable payments and resolutions for clients. He is routinely brought into cases pending in both court and arbitration across the United States to directly argue dispositive motions and obtain favorable verdicts.

On July 8, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Diana, delivering a decisive and long-awaited victory for debt buyers operating in New Jersey. The court’s ruling — affirming the dismissal of a putative class action brought by a borrower seeking to void his credit card debt — definitively closes the door on a theory of liability that has dogged the debt-buying industry in New Jersey for years.