Nicholas Reddick

• As a federal prosecutor, Nick served as lead or co-lead prosecutor in numerous civil rights cases brought by the Department of Justice,* including U.S. v. Syring in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the prosecution of an individual who was convicted of federal hate crimes after a two week jury trial for threatening numerous employees of a Washington, D.C. non-profit advocating on behalf of Arab Americans.
• As a Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Navy,* Nick assisted the Navy in responding to various Congressional investigations and inquiries regarding the handling of sexual assaults committed against U.S. service members; oversaw numerous complex, high-profile internal investigations involving fraud, criminal conduct, and alleged war crimes committed overseas; and served as trial counsel in numerous courts martial and administrative proceedings.
  
   

• Benchmark Litigation, 40 & Under List, 2024

Class Actions

• Representing the nation’s largest federal credit union, Navy Federal Credit Union, in numerous consumer related class actions brought in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of California, District of South Carolina, and Eastern District of Virginia.  Achieved dismissals of numerous of Plaintiffs’ claims, and represented Navy Federal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
• Representing a leading technology company against claims brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) in the Central District of California.
• Represented a large financial institution in a consumer related class action brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.  Complaint was dismissed prior to discovery after a favorable settlement following the credit union’s filing of a motion to dismiss the Complaint and motion to strike the class allegations. 
• Represented Resideo Technologies in a securities fraud class action brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, and related shareholder derivative litigation in the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Delaware and Minnesota.
• Representing a class of employees of the State of Arizona in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Arizona’s exclusion of gender-affirming surgical care under the State’s health care plan.
• Advised a Fortune 500 company faced with a class action brought under Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA).

White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations

•  Representing a California-based, public biotechnology company in investigations being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and state healthcare regulators.
• Representing an employee of a large automobile manufacturer charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act.
• Overseen numerous internal and Congressional investigations on behalf of several large corporations, health care companies, and asset management firms.
• Assisted in providing expert testimony addressing political interference in federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, in relation to a high-profile extradition of a foreign national.

High Stakes Litigation & Other Matters

• Submitted an amicus brief on behalf of a group of prominent First Amendment scholars in TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland (D.C. Cir.), arguing that requiring the divestiture of TikTok constitutes viewpoint and content based discrimination that fails strict scrutiny.
• Represented a leading social media company in several high-stakes defamation disputes.
• Represented a leading social media company before the California Attorney General regarding new content moderation reporting requirements.
• Represented a leading technology company in litigation brought by numerous State Attorneys General involving claims brought under state consumer protection laws.
• Advised a Fortune 500 company with respect to certain pay equity and diversity, equity, and inclusion policy enhancements. 
• Represented the board of directors of PDV Holding, Inc., CITGO Holding, Inc., and CITGO Petroleum Corporation in successfully obtaining a precedent-setting ruling in the Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court that affirmed the legitimacy of the President Guaidó-appointed boards of directors of the U.S. subsidiaries of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.
• Representing PDV Holding, Inc. in two lawsuits in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and New York Court of Appeals seeking to invalidate certain sovereign bonds executed by the Maduro regime in contravention of Venezuela’s Constitution and the Venezuelan National Assembly’s legislative acts.  Successfully obtained a favorable ruling from the New York Court of Appeals overturning the lower court’s prior ruling on which forum’s law applies to the validity of the bonds. 
• Successfully obtained a $455 million judgment against the Republic of Iran in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of military veterans and Gold Star families suing to hold Iran accountable for providing material support and resources to the terrorists in Iraq that injured or killed the plaintiffs and their family members.
• Representing hundreds of additional Gold Star families and military veterans in lawsuits under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Antiterrorism Act against the Republic of Iran for supporting terrorism in Iraq and numerous wartime contractors that allegedly paid bribes to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
• Secured a favorable settlement for a decorated Air Force veteran, in a civil rights lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California against the California Department of Parks and Recreation (CDPR) and two of its officers.  
• Represented numerous students and their families to overturn disciplinary findings imposed by major universities and private secondary schools following Honor Code violations, including allegations regarding the use of generative AI in drafting term papers.
• Representing Synopsys, one of the world’s largest software companies, in patent infringement litigation brought against a multinational technology conglomerate in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
• Represented Synopsys in copyright and patent infringement litigation brought against another software company in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
• Representing CITGO Petroleum Corporation in breach of contract, fraud, and RICO litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against an individual and company that allegedly defrauded the Company.
• Represented a large, foreign corporation in a federal lawsuit brought under the Helms-Burton Act in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
• Represented an ad hoc Group of Hertz Corporation Senior Noteholders seeking to enforce certain redemption provisions in the Notes through bankruptcy proceedings.
• Successfully litigated numerous lawsuits brought under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

*These matters were handled prior to joining Willkie.