About Nicholas Gillan
Nick Gillan focuses on holding corporations and entities accountable for their role in sexual abuse, manufacturing defects, toxic chemical exposures, car accidents, catastrophic injuries, construction accidents, medical malpractice, and wrongful death in Seattle and throughout Washington. As a youth, Nick was fascinated with the judicial system and legislative process, and his experiences in pro bono and clinical legal work during law school reinforced the important role private attorneys play in holding institutional powers accountable. Nick served as a judicial intern for Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah at the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in 2021 and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2023 with a Dean's Scholarship. He is Treasurer of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association's New and Young Lawyers Section.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA)
These results are credited to Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala (PCVA). A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A King County jury awarded $165 million to eight former Sky Valley Education Center employees, including the estate of one deceased plaintiff, after finding Pharmacia LLC liable for selling PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts without adequate warning.
A Pierce County jury awarded William Tisdale $91 million after he was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat outside an APRO-owned Union 76 convenience store in Parkland, Washington, leaving him with multiple skull fractures and permanent cognitive damage.
A King County jury awarded $72 million to two former Sky Valley Education Center students who developed chronic neurological injuries after years of PCB exposure from aging fluorescent light fixtures manufactured by Monsanto.
A Thurston County jury awarded $57 million to roughly 22,000 live-in home-care providers after finding that Washington's Department of Social and Health Services unlawfully cut their pay through an automatic 15 percent reduction in authorized care hours.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
