A lawyer who has shipped code.

Nick has practiced law for more than ten years, licensed in California, Washington, and Nevada, and has litigated through the appellate level. He represents founders, investors, and technology companies in litigation and serves as outside general counsel to fast-growing companies, from AI and cybersecurity platforms to consumer products. Where a dispute or a deal turns on how the technology actually works, Nick reads the code himself.

Nick wrote software at Apple. You will not need a translator to explain your stack, your architecture, or what actually broke. There he was an engineer responsible for a 30 petabyte financial data lake covering pricing information, activations, and install base, some of the more important data sets at the company. He was an early engineer at CryptoMove, a cybersecurity startup, and a Y Combinator founder. He also spent a year teaching programming, including AI-assisted agentic coding, and did that all around the world, teaching developers how to program with agents in today's world.

Prior to that, Nick worked as a startup lawyer, including a successful § 1983 appeal in the Nevada Court of Appeals. He has advised many startups on the agreements that decide whether a company scales, for clients that sell into Airbnb, Netflix, and LinkedIn, and he works with Bay Area venture funds on financings from seed to Series E.

Nick and Jacob met on the UC Berkeley debate team and have been friends for 20+ years, the start of the network of trial lawyers the firm still co-counsels with today. Nick practices and teaches hot yoga. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and astrology, and he will read your tarot.