N. Nickolas Jackson - Columbus, GA
Attorney at The Finley Firm, P.C.
Class Action & Mass Torts Lawyers in Columbus, GA
200 13th Street Columbus, GA 31901
Columbus Class Action & Mass Torts Lawyer
Updated: 02/28/2026
Areas of Practice
- Class Action & Mass Torts
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Defective Products
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Wrongful Death
Attorney Information
Overview
Nick Jackson grew up in Phenix City, Alabama, and earned his undergraduate degree from Auburn University before attending Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. He graduated as one of the youngest members of his class, receiving his Juris Doctor cum laude and ranking in the top 7%.
Nick represents plaintiffs and defendants across industries in complex, high stakes trial and appellate litigation. Nick regularly serves as lead counsel in wrongful death actions, particularly those involving negligent security and construction defect allegations.
Nick also practices in the areas of multidistrict litigation, class action litigation, mass torts, and personal injury. Nick has played a key role in significant data breach class actions in Georgia history and successfully argued on behalf of over 497,000 class members in a landmark data breach case that is frequently cited for its foreseeability analysis.
Nick is currently leading one of the largest mass litigation campaigns in Georgia history alongside consumer advocate, Erin Brockovich, where he represents hundreds of individuals, businesses, municipalities, and counties across the State in claims involving environmental contamination stemming from carpet manufacturing.
Nick prides his practice on being results driven and uses a “business” approach in all of his cases. Nick attributes his business acumen to his grandmother who grew a small staffing agency in Columbus, Georgia into one of the nation’s largest female-owned employment agencies.
Nick is a lifetime member of the Auburn Alumni Association. When he is not working, Nick enjoys spending time with his family, watching Auburn football and basketball, duck hunting, and fishing at his family’s farm in rural Southwest Georgia. Nick also loves Alabama history and is the creator of a former exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nick’s exhibit highlighted the roles of women and African Americans in Alabama’s contributions to the war effort.
Successes
Wrongful Death:
- $5,000,000 wrongful death bench verdict in a negligent security case in Muscogee County, Georgia, settled for policy limits
- $4,000,000+ settlement involving wrongful death claim
- $2,000,000 settlement involving negligent security wrongful death claim
- $2,000,000 settlement involving wrongful death claim
- $1,000,000 settlement involving negligent security wrongful death claim at a hotel
- $1,000,000 settlement involving negligent security wrongful death claim at a strip mall
Trucking Accident:
- $499,000 trucking accident settlement
Premises Liability
- $250,000 slip and fall accident settlement
Defense Results:
- Obtained a defense verdict as lead trial counsel in a multi-day jury trial for a disputed liability car accident where Plaintiff alleged permanent and life altering injuries
- Regularly serves as lead counsel for large governmental entity in large multi-party wrongful death actions
- Regularly serves as lead counsel for large governmental entity in large multi-party construction defect wrongful death actions
- Negotiated confidential settlement for large insurance company in a high-risk personal injury action that was in permanent default in Georgia state court
- Regularly serves as lead counsel for various large financial institutions in various litigated matters throughout the Georgia state and federal court system
Education
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Legal Education
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Cumberland School of Law, Samford University,
Birmingham,
Alabama
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Scholar of Merit: Constitutional Law II and Pre-Trial Practice and Procedure
Honors: Judge Abraham Caruther’s Fellow
Honors: Chairman of the Cordell Hull Speaker’s Forum
Law Journal: American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Managing Editor
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Cumberland School of Law, Samford University,
Birmingham,
Alabama
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Non Legal Education
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Auburn University,
Auburn,
Alabama
B.S. Finance
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Spirit of Auburn Scholarship Recipient
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Auburn University,
Auburn,
Alabama
Current Employment Position(s)
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Attorney
Past Positions
- Judicial Extern for the Hon. R. David Proctor of the Northern District of Alabama and formerly of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Externship focused on the judicial administration of multidistrict litigation
Representative Cases
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Tracy, et al. v. Elekta, Inc., et al., 1:21-cv-02851-SDG, U.S.D.C N.D. Ga. (successfully argued the Plaintiff's opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss on behalf of 497,000 class members before Judge Steven D. Grimberg; case settled for $8,900,000.00)
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Appointed Class Counsel by Judge Leigh Martin May in a Data Breach Class Action involving 16,890 class members that settled for $375,000.00, Abrams v. The Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-04297-LMM, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga.
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Counsel of Record for Plaintiffs in a Data Breach Class Action involving 4,386,969 class members that settled for $8,733,446.36, Sherwood v. Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC, 1:22-cv-01495-ELR, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga.
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- Alabama
- Arizona
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Alabama
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Supreme Court of Alabama
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- Arizona Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- Member, Alabama State Bar
- Member, Georgia State Bar
- Member, Arizona State Bar
- Lifetime Member, Auburn Alumni Association
- Phenix City Mayor’s Education and Charity Ball Committee, Chair, Fundraising Committee
- Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, Young Alumni Council
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