About Nicholas
With a passion for justice, tempered by decades of experience handling high profile cases, Nick is a versatile litigator and trial lawyer specializing in class actions, complex litigation, catastrophic injury, and bet your company cases. Nick has recovered over $500 million for his clients in such areas as consumer rights, intellectual property (copyright, trademark, trade secrets, right of publicity), technology, entertainment, employment, financial fraud, business disputes, and traumatic brain injury. Nick's background as a technology entrepreneur, chess master and performing musician gives him a unique breadth of experience, perspective, judgment and common sense. A former registered US Patent Agent, Nick worked in Silicon Valley for several years as an entrepreneur and CEO of a technology company. Mr. Carlin is a US National Chess Master and an accomplished cellist who has played with Berkeley Symphony, Verismo Opera and many other Bay Area groups. Nick has served as vice chair of the San Francisco PUC Citizens Advisory Committee, and chair of the Civil Justice and National Security planks for the California Democratic Party Platform Committee. Nick has been a partner at Phillips, Erlewine, Given & Carlin since 2008. He has lectured at Hastings College of the Law, the University of California at Berkeley Law School, and the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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Education
BA - Physics
Harvard College
JD
UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)
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