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Melissa M. Nichols
Associate
Spartanburg Office
Phone: 864-591-1113
Fax: 864-591-1767
mnichols@wilkeslaw.com
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Melissa Nichols graduated in 2000 from Washington
& Lee University School of Law, where she was Lead Articles Editor of the
Washington & Lee University Law Review. She began her professional career as
a judicial clerk for the Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin, United States District
Judge of the Southern District of West Virginia.
Melissa concentrates her practice in business tort litigation, insurance
coverage, complex
insurance defense and products liability cases. She has experience
litigating catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, and has extensive
federal court experience. Melissa also represents creditors in commercial
bankruptcy matters. Before moving to
Greenville, South Carolina, Melissa practiced in Alexandria, Virginia
and the District of Columbia, where she also served as an adjunct instructor
of legal writing at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Prior to law school, Melissa worked as an Associate Account Executive
for Travelers Insurance in the Baltimore, Maryland office of the Special
Liabilities Group. At Travelers, she handled a variety of environmental and
toxic tort claims.
Melissa is a member of the executive committee of the South Carolina Defense
Trial Attorneys Association. She is on the board of the Parent School
Association at her children's school,
as well
as a member of the
International Center of the Upstate and participates in the ICU’s book club.
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Washington & Lee University
School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2000
Tulane University, B.A., Political Economics, 1995
South Carolina, 2007
District of Columbia, 2002
Virginia, 2000
U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
U.S. Bankruptcy court for the District of South Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Virginia
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Columbia
South Carolina Bar
District of Columbia Bar
Virginia State Bar
South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association (Executive Committee)
Defense Research Institute
Spartanburg County Bar Association
Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Co-Chair, Career
Development Committee, 2005-2007)
Member of Executive Committee of South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys
Association
Presentations: Presenter at NBI’s 2010 Legal Ethics: Hot Topics and Current
Events
Publications: Contributing Editor to Acquisition
Update, Government Contracting Newsletter (2004-2006)
Contributor to Defense Line, publication of South Carolina Defense Trial
Attorney’s Association
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