Timothy G. Nickels
312-923-8275 direct
tnickels@smbtrials.com

Born Yokohama, Japan, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Illinois; 1982, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1986, Trial Bar; 1986, United States Supreme Court.

Education:
University of Notre Dame (B.A., cum laude, 1979;
  J.D., 1982)
  Member, National Moot Court Team
Recipient of A. Harold Weber Moot Court and William T.
  Kirby Awards, 1982
Co-author: with D.R. Carlson and R.J. Street, A Model
  Antitrust Policy for College and Universities, Journal of
  Student Financial Aid, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1992)

Member:
Chicago Bar
  Nominating, Strategic Planning, and Judicial Evaluation
  Committees-Chair, 2000-2001
DuPage County, Illinois State and American Bar
  Associations
  Member, Sections on: Litigation; Tort and Insurance
  Practice; Criminal Justice
Notre Dame Law Association
Defense Research Institute
Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation-Board
  Member, 2001-2006; President, 2005-2006

Practice Areas:
Medical Malpractice
Commercial Litigation
Product Liability
Toxic Torts
Trial
White Collar Criminal