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Alexandra (Allie) Nickerson

Associate

[email protected]

202.434.5756

Allie is an associate whose practice focuses on appellate litigation and complex civil litigation matters.  She has experience across a variety of subject areas, including civil and criminal fraud, antitrust, products liability, and contract disputes.  She has co-authored appellate briefs in multiple federal circuit courts, as well as briefs and pleadings in federal and state trial courts around the country.  Allie also has experience representing individuals pro bono in immigration and asylum proceedings.  Before joining the firm, Allie clerked for Judge Michelle Friedland of the Ninth Circuit and Judge Beryl Howell of the District Court for the District of Columbia.  She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.S. from Vanderbilt University.

Publications

  • Alexandra Nickerson & Kellen Funk, When Judges Were Enjoined: Text and Tradition in the Federal Review of State Judicial Action, 111 CALIF. L. REV. 1763 (2023).
  • Alexandra Nickerson, Ultra-APA Ultra Vires Review: Implied Equitable Actions for Statutory Violations by Federal Officials, 121 COLUM. L. REV. 2521 (2021).