Nicole demonstrated a commitment to client service as a licensed student attorney for the University of Illinois College of Law Veterans Legal Clinic, where she helped clients obtain orders of protection and assisted with a variety of family law matters, including drafting and negotiating parenting plans. She also worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert H. Cleland of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Nicole was actively involved in criminal justice issues, both as a teacher's assistant for a juvenile and criminal justice course, and as a member of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
Related Practices
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- J.D. magna cum laude University of Illinois College of Law 2023
- Excellence for the Future Award, CFI: Interviewing, Counseling, and Fact Investigation, The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), fall 2021
- Excellence for the Future Award, Advanced Legal Writing: Transactional Writing, CALI, spring 2023
- Summer associate, Venable
- Judicial extern, the Honorable Robert H. Cleland, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Student attorney, Veterans Legal Clinic
- B.A. English University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 2020
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Languages
- Russian