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Employees at the firm say that the firm is a great place to work and the atmosphere is collegial and everyone feeds of each other strengths and work together in a mutually respectful and supportive atmosphere. In learning from each other, the firm recognizes that no single approach can provide every answer. It embraces a diversity of perspectives, expertise, experience, and cultures. All want to see team members succeed and the workplace is devoid of competition amongst the employees, who all work together as one employer said, it feels like family.
At Nelson Mullins, people are respected and considered to be the firm's greatest assets. Every employee's ideas are valued and personal and professional development is nurtured. The firm strives for an environment in which every employee's voice can be heard, and the firm listens to those voices.
Most summer associates stay on as permanent employees as the firm makes an attempt to integrate and train them from the moment they join them. The firm strongly encourages attorneys of all levels and specialties to pursue their interests and strengths within the legal field. The firm says that it is committed to build interesting, successful careers in a supportive environment. Moreover the firm pays well and has generous benefits.
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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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| Year of establishment | 1897 | Number of partners | 404 |
| Number of offices | 21 | Partner to associate ratio | 2.00 |
| Biggest office | Columbia | Percentage of women attorneys | 32.00 |
| Number of attorneys | 707 | Percentage of minority attorneys | 11.00 |
| Number of associates | 200 | Percentage of LGBT attorneys | 0.80 |
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Reviews
Former Employee
- Reviewed on December 18, 2017
Advice to law firm management: I would like to see management implement small groups that will take care of worker reviews on a more regular basis so that employees know where they stand in the firm.
Pros: I found the pay to be excellent. I also thought that there was great flexibility in terms of allowing how each individual deals with their client. Everyone was very friendly as well.
Cons: This is a big law firm and being a big law firm there it can be quite arduous to figure out where you stand in the firm when compared to everyone else. I found this is be a somewhat small flaw in the grand scheme of things though.
Current or former employee?: Former Employee
Pros: I found the pay to be excellent. I also thought that there was great flexibility in terms of allowing how each individual deals with their client. Everyone was very friendly as well.
Cons: This is a big law firm and being a big law firm there it can be quite arduous to figure out where you stand in the firm when compared to everyone else. I found this is be a somewhat small flaw in the grand scheme of things though.
Current or former employee?: Former Employee
Current Employee
- Reviewed on October 26, 2017
Advice to law firm management: Be more attentive to employees that might need more guidance or clarification - some people are just more risk-adverse and don't like to take action without permission. Help them now so they can gain more confidence for the future.
Pros: Just about everyone is great to work with - the culture is excellent. There are lots of opportunities to learn and grow, and many positions have a lot of autonomy. Technology is pretty up to date.
Cons: Pay and benefits sometimes feel sub-par compared to working hours and local competitors' salaries. As good as it is that the firm gives people a lot of leeway, sometimes it does not seem like they provide enough guidance or direction to employees.
Current or former employee?: Current Employee
Pros: Just about everyone is great to work with - the culture is excellent. There are lots of opportunities to learn and grow, and many positions have a lot of autonomy. Technology is pretty up to date.
Cons: Pay and benefits sometimes feel sub-par compared to working hours and local competitors' salaries. As good as it is that the firm gives people a lot of leeway, sometimes it does not seem like they provide enough guidance or direction to employees.
Current or former employee?: Current Employee
Overview
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP provides advice and counsel in litigation, corporate, securities, finance, banking, mergers and acquisitions, financial services, healthcare, technology, intellectual property, labor and employment, government relations, regulatory, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, immigration, international law, and other needs of clients ranging from private individuals to large businesses. With more than 65 diversified practice areas, Nelson Mullins works closely with its clients to find solutions to legal and business problems. With more than 500 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing from offices in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and throughout the Carolinas, Nelson Mullins has strong roots in the business community and an appreciation for new directions in the business world. Many Nelson Mullins clients—including growth companies, expanding local businesses, and major international companies—retain the Firm to provide all of their legal services. Other clients are national companies requiring assistance with specific regional or local legal matters. The Firm also represents international companies interested in locating facilities in the United States. The Firm is large enough to provide the necessary resources and experience, yet personal enough to provide individual client attention. At heart, Nelson Mullins is an entrepreneurial firm dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to our clients. Nelson Mullins encourages its lawyers to approach each client individually, working to understand the needs, goals, and long-term plans of each client. By identifying these strategic issues, our attorneys can develop an individualized approach targeting each facet of the client, creating specific solutions to help address each need, to reach each goal, and to realize each long-term plan.
Practice Areas
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.
- Advertising Law
- Affordable Housing & Community Development
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- And Redemption
- And Regulatory Practice
- Antitrust
- Appellate
- Asbestos
- Automotive And Truck Products
- Aviation
- Bankruptcy Creditors' Rights And Financial Restructuring
- Business Litigation
- Captive Insurance & Insurance Regulatory
- Chemicals Mass Torts And Environmental Law
- Cities Counties And Other Political Subdivisions
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Leasing
- Construction & Surety Law
- Consumer And Mechanical Product Liability Litigation
- Consumer Financial Services Litigation
- Consumer Product Safety Risk Prevention
- Cybersecurity And Data Breach Response
- Defense Industry
- Distressed Real Estate And Debt Workouts
- District Of Columbia
- Domain Names
- Economic Development
- E-Discovery And Litigation Readiness
- Education Law
- Educationcounsel Llc
- Electronic Transactions
- Employment & Labor
- Energy And Utilities Practice
- Environmental Real Estate
- Erisa Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation
- Estate Planning
- Executive Compensation
- Family Law
- Federal Government Relations
- Federal Strategies Team
- Financial Institutions
- Franchise And Distribution Law And Litigation
- General Corporate
- General Environmental
- General Financial Services
- General Information Management
- General Insurance
- General Intellectual Property
- General Litigation
- General Real Estate
- General Taxation
- General Transportation
- Georgia
- Government Contracts
- Government Investigations And White Collar Defense
- Government Relations And Administrative Law
- Healthcare
- Healthcare Real Estate
- Immigration
- International
- Investment Management
- Life Sciences
- Lodging And Leisure
- Massachusetts
- Mergers And Acquisitions
- Mobile Payments And Digital Commerce
- Multi-Family
- North Carolina
- Online Brand Equity And Strategic Distribution
- Osha - Safety & Health
- Outsourcing
- Patents
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Litigation
- Premises Liability
- Privacy And Information Security
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Procurement
- Product Liability Counseling And Reporting
- Professional Liability
- Public Policy And International Law
- Real Estate Finance Services
- Real Estate Financial Services
- Records And Document Management
- Resort And Planned Communities
- Securities
- Securities Litigation
- South Carolina
- Sovereign Government Representation
- Sports Law
- State And Local Taxes
- Sustainable Energy Group
- Tax Lien Escrow Lost Property
- Taxation
- Technology Law
- Telecommunications
- Timber And Forest Products
- Toxic Torts
- Trademarks
- Vendor Management
- Warranty And Lemon Law
- Website Legal Review
- Construction
- Corporate
- Education
- Employment
- Environmental
- Family
- Financial Services
- Government Relations
- Information Management
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Real Estate
- Technology
- Transportation
Hiring Criteria
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP follows the set of hiring criteria outlined below.
In its hiring the firm looks for students with high academic achievement and consideration is given to undergraduate and law school academic performance. Students who show leadership capacities and show evidence of having participated in extracurricular activities are preferred. Law Review, Moot Court are an additional advantage. IP candidates must be Patent Bar eligible.
Every year the firm interviews potential candidates at Southeastern law schools and job fairs. Candidates interested in pursuing a legal career at Nelson Mullins may contact the Firm directly or register for an on campus interview. However, if the candidate's law school is not on the firm's campus schedule, the firm also considers applications from law students across the country. Recruitment of summer associates is supervised by the firm's Recruiting Committee but depends considerably upon the participation of all lawyers in the firm.
Nelson Mullins is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The firm will not discriminate in any aspect of its employment practices against any qualified applicant or employee on account of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or marital status.
Pro bono
The Firm dedicates thousands of hours to pro bono services. It is a firm tradition, a legacy that has been religiously followed by the firm's lawyers and others, throughout its more than century of existence. Over the last two decades it has donated 405,605 hours of pro bono service and regularly leads in the American Lawyer pro bono rankings.
The firm's pro bono program is unique in the sense that it was designed with considerable thought, after evaluating existing pro bono programs across the country. It contains the following key elements that the program set a goal of a minimum number of annual pro bono hours per attorney, that considering the considerable resources of the firm, it should undertake large, "impact" pro bono projects and to give full billable and collections credit for pro bono matters meeting Nelson Mullins' definition of "pro bono" and approved by the Pro Bono Committee.
The program has stood the test of time and even after two decades it remains the prime motivators of the firm's pro bono program. The program is recognized as one of the top pro bono programs in the country.
The Firm is committed to handling complex pro bono litigation, corporate matters and legislative advocacy, as well as individual pro bono representation. The firm has sponsored externships and fellowships with several agencies, including the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center and the South Carolina Center for Capital Litigation. In 1997, to mark its own 100th year of service, Nelson Mullins established five centennial fellowships to fund the work of attorneys focusing exclusively on children's issues.
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Notable cases
- Nelson Mullins attorney George B. Cauthen represented a power company in a case in which the court held that the debtor could not avoid the post-petition contract with Power Company, and that the power company was allowed a multimillion dollar administrative claim.
- Nelson Mullins partner Barry D. Alexander represented hospitals, healthcare systems and durable medical equipment suppliers in Medicare billing and other regulatory disputes with the U.S. Department of Justice; resolving potential civil exclusionary actions, and negotiating and implementing corporate integrity agreements with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
- Nelson Mullins partner Juliane Balliro working with a team of lawyers, recently obtained a $102 million verdict against the federal government in a claim of malicious prosecution arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
- Nelson Mullins Keri Chayavadhanangkur represented Manufacturer of satellite communication networks in its $315 million 144A equity offering and a global chemicals manufacturer in its $130 million acquisition of a division of a U.S. based global chemicals manufacturer.
- Nelson Mullins partner Joseph Dowdy tried a $14 million arbitration involving claims against a financial institution for alleged violations of the bank holding company act, the UCC, and state banking laws.
- Nelson Mulley partner Richard B. Herzog represented a Fortune 50 company in the defense of a $450 million breach of contract suit brought by the litigation claims representative of a bankrupt diaper manufacturer.
- Nelson Mulley partner defended an international retail company in a multi-million dollar lawsuit from claims of negligent hiring and retention based on the criminal misconduct of one of the company's employees obtaining summary-judgment dismissal of the lawsuit and defeated plaintiff's summary-judgment motion on liability.
- Nelson Mulley partner George Kostel obtained dismissal prior to discovery of claims brought by 127 plaintiffs against two banks accused of conspiring with developers and appraisers to sell property in waterfront subdivisions to plaintiffs at inflated prices. Plaintiffs claimed tens of millions of dollars in damages.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Awards and Recognitions
Nelson Mullins is a leader in its chosen practices, industries and locations and is frequently ranked in regional and national trade publications.
Chambers USA 2012 ranked Nelson Mullins among America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
US News ranked Nelson Mullins as Best Law Firm 2013.
The International Trademark Association (INTA) on Thursday presented John McElwaine, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP's Charleston office, with the Volunteer Service Award.
U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® have ranked Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as one of the Best Law Firms in America in product liability litigation for defendants.
Nine Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough attorneys have been selected by their peers to the 2012 list of Massachusetts "Super Lawyers" and "Rising Stars" in five practice areas.
Best Lawyers, a legal peer-review publication, has named 15 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partners as the 2013 Best Lawyers of the Year in their respective practices and cities.
Legal directory publishers Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 have recognized Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for its products liability litigation.
Thirty Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP attorneys based in South Carolina have been selected by their peers to the 2012 list of South Carolina "Super Lawyers" in 12 practice areas.
Diversity
The firm is committed to achieving and maintaining diversity in all aspects of its life. At the firm diversity is not a choice, it is a core value, a place where they celebrate their differences. The firm's workforce is populated by people from a wide range of racial, gender, age, ethnic, national origin, sexual orientation, and religious persuasions.
The firm actively recruits diverse talent through on-campus visits to law schools, attendance at regional and national job fairs, mentoring programs, and internal and external networking.
The firm believes that the greater their diversity, the more creative and effective it becomes. Its diversity brings to its workplace more varied perceptions, understandings, background, flair, and interests. The firm's clients come from different communities, cities and states and only a diverse workplace can best serve their interests.
The firm has the recruitment, retention, and promotion of diverse attorneys as its top priority and through its various committees ensures that all have equal access to the best opportunities for their individual professional development and growth. The firm offers flexible and reduced-time work schedules that permit both male and female attorneys to work alternative schedules.
Nelson Mullins' achievements in the diversity area have been recognized and they have won numerous awards and accolades for their commitment to diversity. The firm is proud of its efforts and achievements to date, and comprehends that sustained diversity requires a continued commitment to the creation and maintenance of a climate of true inclusiveness and that it will continue promote and support diversity in all that they do.
Summer associate program
Nelson Mullins' Summer Associate Program is of great importance to the firm as it is from among the students that the firm looks to fill its positions for entry-level associates. The firm considers it be a vital part of its recruiting process. The program provides an ideal training ground for a fruitful and meaningful career at the firm. Nelson Mullins is dedicated to providing summer associates with an opportunity to achieve a realistic view of the firm's practice and its open and dynamic culture.
Summer associates are made to attend client matters, virtually from day one of the program. However, a major part of the first day is spent learning about the firm's history, its culture, its work ethos and its people. The program is designed to show the students what they require to succeed at the firm. Students are provided challenging and exciting work assignments and opportunities for summer associates to interact with all attorneys at the firm.
Summer associates experience the day-to-day practice of law through opportunities to attend depositions, negotiation and drafting sessions, client conferences, closings, administrative hearings, and trials. Assignments will depend on the practice area and the needs of the clients and could include drafting briefs and pleadings; working on financial and corporate transactions; and participating in the preparation of securities offerings.
More than just telling them what to do, associates are made to practice in actual work situations. In this way, each summer associate has an opportunity to evaluate the firm and its practice by becoming involved in major projects and by observing the work of the firm's lawyers.
The firm's Summer Program is designed to give summer associates an all-inclusive view of the firm's practice, at the same time giving the firm an opportunity to evaluate the skills of the summer associates and assess his potential as a probable enduring employee at the firm.
Working for the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Employees at the firm say that the firm is a great place to work and the atmosphere is collegial and everyone feeds of each other strengths and work together in a mutually respectful and supportive atmosphere. In learning from each other, the firm recognizes that no single approach can provide every answer. It embraces a diversity of perspectives, expertise, experience, and cultures. All want to see team members succeed and the workplace is devoid of competition amongst the employees, who all work together as one employer said, it feels like family.
At Nelson Mullins, people are respected and considered to be the firm's greatest assets. Every employee's ideas are valued and personal and professional development is nurtured. The firm strives for an environment in which every employee's voice can be heard, and the firm listens to those voices.
Most summer associates stay on as permanent employees as the firm makes an attempt to integrate and train them from the moment they join them. The firm strongly encourages attorneys of all levels and specialties to pursue their interests and strengths within the legal field. The firm says that it is committed to build interesting, successful careers in a supportive environment. Moreover the firm pays well and has generous benefits.
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