Leeds Grammar School
Emmanuel College Cambridge (MA, LLM)
Harvard University, Cambridge Mass., USA (Visiting Scholar)

Attorney & Counsellor at Law New York (admitted 1998).

Described as a 'Leading Junior' in the category of 'Family/Matrimonial' by both the Chambers & Partners Guide to the Legal Profession (2009) and The Legal 500 (2009).

Regular lecturer to regional Resolutions (formerly SFLAs), solicitors' firms and for Central Law Training.

In addition to his reported cases, Nicholas was involved in one of the first high net worth "short marriage/no children" cases post Miller/McFarlane to reach the courts.

He is also increasingly instructed in claims under the Civil Partnership Act 2004. In January 2009, he was junior counsel to Nicholas Francis QC in what (it is believed) would have been the first final hearing of a financial claim under the Act. The case settled just prior to trial. Nicholas has also recently been instructed in several further cases under the Act. He is co-author of “The Law and Financial Provision on the Dissolution of Civil Partnerships” ([2009] Fam Law 836).

Nicholas is an acknowledged contributor to "Ancillary Relief after Miller and McFarlane" by Nicholas Francis QC and David Salter (Lime Legal, 2006) and is also acknowledged in "Cohabitation and Trusts of Land" by Darlington, Heaton and Wagstaffe (Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2006).

Trained as Collaborative Counsel

Family Law Bar Association (committee member 2003-2008); American Bar Association; Bar Standards Board (Complaints Committee 2005-2007)