About Nicklyn Dolphin

Nicklyn Dolphin is an attorney at Marasco & Nesselbush, representing Social Security Disability claimants. Her desire to help those in need steered her toward disability law, where she has excelled from the very start of her legal career. Nicklyn's previous work experience with an indigent population gave her an understanding of the difficulties facing individuals with limited means.

Her experience as the executive assistant for the chief of medicine and chief of nursing at Harvard University provided her with a familiarity with the healthcare system and medical terminology. Nicklyn graduated with honors from Franklin & Marshall College in 2004 and from New England School of Law in 2011, where she finished in the top ten percent of her class and served as an editor of the New England Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Marasco & Nesselbush, LLP

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Verdict

After more than three decades of denials, the First Circuit vacated the judgment against the claimant and, on remand, an SSA administrative law judge awarded retroactive Social Security disability benefits to the estate of a Rhode Island veteran whose untreated schizophrenia had gone uncompensated since 1975.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit / Social Security Administration ALJ, Providence RI · 2011Read the full story →
Verdict

A three-judge First Circuit panel ruled that two Social Security Administration practices governing attorney fee payments were arbitrary and unenforceable, ordering the agency to revise procedures that had denied Marasco & Nesselbush roughly $70,000 in earned fees.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Boston · 2021Read the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

New England School of Law
J.D., 2011
Franklin & Marshall College
Undergraduate, 2004

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Massachusetts

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.