Bryan A. Nickels

Bryan A. Nickels is a senior associate and has been with the firm since August 2002. Mr. Nickels received his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Idaho in 1995, and later received his M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Idaho in 1998. He received his J.D. from Boston College in 2001. While in law school, Mr. Nickels was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, and while at the University of Idaho was a member of the honors society, Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Nickels past experience includes one year with the Twin Falls County Public Defender’s Office, where he was the primary appellate attorney, while also handling a misdemeanor and juvenile case load and assisting in first-degree murder cases. During law school, Mr. Nickels spent a summer clerking for Justice Raymond Austin of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court. Mr. Nickels also engaged in private and pro bono representation of immigrants and asylum-seekers, including matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Mr. Nickels is the author of two articles: "Native American Free Passage Rights Under the 1794 Jay Treaty: Survival Under United States Statutory Law and Canadian Common Law," 24:2 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 313 (2001), and "Application of an Ecology-Based Methodology for Paleopopulation Studies," co-authored with Dr. Robert Lee Sappington, North American Archaeologist, Vol. 20, Issue 2 (Fall 1999).

Mr. Nickels is currently licensed to practice law in all courts of the State of Idaho, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Indian Law Section of the Idaho State Bar. Mr. Nickels has also served as an adjunct professor at Boise State University teaching business law, and co-authored the Idaho chapter of the ABA Performance Bond Manual (2006).



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