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Nicholas T. Christakos

Partner

Nick has more than 30 years of experience representing clients in federal and state courts, litigation, and arbitration. 

He knows that no two clients or cases are identical and that each client has individual business needs, philosophies, and goals. Understanding each client’s business, planning a targeted litigation strategy and obtaining a favorable outcome are key to his broad-based litigation experience, which includes work in insurance, reinsurance, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), securities, employment law, automotive franchise and general contract disputes.

In the insurance and reinsurance areas, Nick has spent thousands of hours in litigation, arbitration and client counseling relating to insurance product transactions, sales practices, coverage, fiduciary liability, risk management, reinsurance arrangements, captive insurer issues, and other matters affecting the financial services industry. Nick also serves as the firm’s general counsel.

  • Recognized as a stand-out lawyer by Acritas Stars: Independently Rated Lawyers (2018-2020)
  • Recipient, Whitney North Seymour Award, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (2015)
  • Recipient, West Publishing Company CJS Award for “most significant contribution toward legal scholarship” in recognition of law review work (1981)
  • Member, Board of Directors, General Counsel and former National Co-chair, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • Volunteer Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union
  • Volunteer Attorney, Legal Counsel for the Elderly
  • Past President, Harvard Club of Washington DC
  • Former Regional Director, Harvard Alumni Association
  • Member, Board of Directors, Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, an affiliate of the American Association for World Health
  • Member, Executive Committee, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on Nutrition and Fitness in Greece (1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004)
  • District of Columbia
  • Court of Appeals of District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center,

    Deputy Project Editor, American Criminal Law Review

  • A.B., cum laude, Harvard College
Nicholas Christakos

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Nicholas Christakos

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