Taylor Nicolas

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Nicolas served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul J. Watford of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and as a law clerk to the Honorable Randolph D. Moss of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Nicolas earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of the Black Law Students Association. She was also selected to participate in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, where she worked on a successful brief in opposition to certiorari and on the successful merits briefing in Hemphill v. New York.

Before attending law school, Ms. Nicolas taught English to high school students in Anhui Province as a Yale-China Association teaching fellow and later worked in Beijing for a small education company.  Ms. Nicolas graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.