Nicholas C. Rowley, J.D.

Nick has been recognized by dozens of publications for his record-breaking verdicts and work for injury victims and their families.  In 2018, Nick was named to The National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers for having a top 50 verdict in the nation. He was also named “Los Angeles Top Litigators in 2018” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. In 2015, Nick was listed in TopVerdict.com’s Top 100 Largest US Verdicts in the nation.  In 2012, Nick was a finalist for the “Consumer Attorney of the Year” award, given by Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC). Nick was recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal for winning a “Top Verdict of 2010” for his $31.6 million jury verdict for the victim of a traumatic brain injury. In 2009, the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego awarded Nick its “Outstanding Trial Lawyer” award. In 2013, Nick was honored with the organization’s top award—“Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year.”

 

Some of Nick’s other recent successes include a record-setting $131,000,375 verdict for the victim of a car crash after the driver was overserved at a bar, a record-setting $74,525,000 verdict for a victim of medical malpractice, $40,000,000 for two parents whose 33-year-old son was killed due to corporate negligence, a $38,600,000 verdict for a young man who fell from a hotel balcony while intoxicated, a $17,000,000 win for a woman who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury caused by a fall from a hotel window, $16,500,000 for a young girl who was a birth-injury victim, a $13,860,000 win for a mild traumatic brain injury caused by an automobile crash, $10,250,000 for a man who suffered a below-knee amputation, $10,000,000 for an Iowa family in a wrongful-death lawsuit, and $10,000,000 for a child with a mild traumatic brain injury. In April 2021, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nick won a $9.5 million verdict for two daughters whose mother was negligently killed while walking her dog in a crosswalk near her home. According to the court clerk, this result set a record for a non-economic damages verdict for wrongful death with adult heirs in Western Massachusetts.

 

Nick has served as an instructor at Gerry Spence’s famed Trial Lawyers College, and he delivers keynote addresses nationwide on his revolutionary approach to voir dire and damages. Other lawyers faced with low settlement offers from insurance companies frequently bring Nick into their cases just before trial. Nick is a relentless warrior who has prevailed in the courtroom time and time again. He prides himself on his caring and empathetic approach to working with his clients and their families, and his ability to help juries find the truth and deliver justice to the injured. Nick has lectured and taught trial skills and his Trial By Human method across the country in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Louisiana, Colorado, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Idaho, California, and New York.

 

Nick is on the Board of Directors of the Imagination Workshop (IW), a non-profit theater arts organization committed to using the unique power of the theater to provide life-changing artistic opportunities to the mentally ill, homeless veterans, senior citizens, and “at-risk” young people. IW programs give troubled people, frequently alienated or overlooked by society, a safe way to express themselves and gain insight that often helps make their lives more successful.

 

Nick is also on the Honorary Board of Governors of TLC, Trial Lawyers’ Charities, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to make a positive difference in the quality of life for people within the greater Los Angeles area by providing financial assistance to needy persons and groups. TLC focuses on issues related to education, children, battered women, persons with disabilities, and homelessness.

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Nick is the author of the book Trial By Human, where he candidly shares his approach that brings brutal honesty and humanity into the courtroom.

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Born in Iowa and raised between Iowa and Arizona, Nick moved out on his own at the age of 15. He worked full time from that point forward and at the age of 17 joined the United States Air Force where he was trained and served as a combat medic. It was through the military and G.I. Bill that Nick got his undergraduate education and was able to attend law school. By the age of 19, Nick completed his bachelor’s degree in social psychology. He also was trained and certified as a firefighter and during his service and college worked as a volunteer firefighter. Nick started law school at the age of 20 and continued his service in the Armed Forces, taking special assignments for three more years. In total he served an honorable 6 years in the United States Armed Forces assigned to various units with the United States Air Force and United States Army.

 

Nick is a relentless warrior who has prevailed in the courtroom time and time again.  Other lawyers faced with low settlement offers from insurance companies frequently bring Nick into their cases just before trial. He prides himself on his caring and empathetic approach to working with his clients and their families, and his ability to help juries find the truth and deliver justice to the injured. Nick believes in going the distance for each and every client, is not afraid to put any case in front of a jury, and makes insurance companies pay up when deserving injury victims come forward to seek justice.

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*Nicholas C. Rowley is not currently licensed to practice law in Oklahoma but may be admitted to practice in individual cases.