Nicholas Moraitakis

Nick is a native Atlantan and has lived in Atlanta all his life. He attended public schools in DeKalb County and then worked his way through Emory College and Emory Law School. He is the first in his extended family to have graduated college. Nick was fortunate enough during college and law school to earn internships allowing him to work in the Department of Natural Resources during Jimmy Carter's governorship and then in the United States Congress in 1975.

His exposure to the operations of government and politics led him to law school and the practice of law. After graduating from Emory Law School in 1977, Nick immediately began practicing law with a defense litigation firm in downtown Atlanta. The first fourteen years of Nick's practice were spent with this firm and its successor firm, representing insurance companies and self-insured corporations.

As a defense lawyer, Nick tried dozens of cases to verdict involving automobile and truck accidents, product liability, negligent security claims, slip and fall accidents, and insurance contracts. While with his defense litigation firm, Nick also began developing a plaintiff's practice. In 1993, Nick and his partner Glenn Kushel began a plaintiff's practice dedicated exclusively to the representation of individuals injured or killed.