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Columbus Class Action & Mass Torts Lawyer
Overview
Nick Jackson grew up in Phenix City, Alabama, and graduated from Auburn University before attending law school at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law where he graduated as one of the youngest members of his graduating class. Nick received his Juris Doctor cum laude and graduated in the top 7% of his class.
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 matters. Nick has been involved in some of the largest data breach class actions in Georgia history and successfully argued on behalf of over 497,000 class members in a data breach matter that is regularly cited by courts across the country for its foreseeability analysis.
Nick prides his practice on being results driven and uses a "business" approach to every case in which he is involved. Nick attributes his business acumen to his grandmother who grew a small staffing agency in Columbus, Georgia to one of the nation's largest female-owned employment agencies.
Aside from Nick’s work at The Finley Firm, his prior employment also includes work as a law clerk for one of the nation’s leading complex litigation law firms. Nick also served as a judicial extern for the Hon. R. David Proctor, a judge for the Northern District of Alabama and formerly of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Nick’s externship focused on the judicial administration of multidistrict litigation.
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.
About N. Nickolas Jackson
Current Employment Position(s)
- Attorney
Practice Areas
- Class Action & Mass Torts
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Defective Products
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Wrongful Death
Representative Clients
- 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.
- 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.
Representative Cases
- Tracy, et al. v. Elekta, Inc., et al., (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 and has been preliminary approved by Judge Grimberg)
- Abrams v. The Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc., 1:22-cv-04297-LMM, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga.
- Sherwood v. Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC, 1:22-cv-01495-ELR, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga.
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- Alabama
- 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
Other Affiliations
- Member, Alabama State Bar
- Member, Georgia State Bar
- Lifetime Member, Auburn Alumni Association
- Phenix City Mayor’s Education and Charity Ball Committee (Chair, Fundraising Committee)
- The Phoenix Initiative
- Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, Young Alumni Council
Education
- 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 Jornal of Trial Advocacy , Managing Editor - Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
B.S. Finance
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Spirit of Auburn Scholarship Recipient
Office Information
Address
200 13th Street Columbus, GA 31901
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