Nicholas Boyd
Associate
Overview
Nick Boyd is an Atlanta litigation attorney who advises corporations, financial services companies and state agencies on complex business and civil litigation matters. Mr. Boyd's practice has a particular emphasis on antitrust disputes, class actions and construction lawsuits.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Boyd worked for a multinational law firm. Mr. Boyd also served as a judicial clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. During law school, Mr. Boyd was an editor and book reviews chair of the Harvard Law Review.
Experience
- Represented an international telecom provider in a dispute with former officers and related internal investigation into the former officers' large-scale fraud scheme, business torts and breaches of fiduciary duties toward their employer
- Represented a public electric utility in multiple cases in a multibillion-dollar contract dispute regarding financing for the proposed expansion of an active nuclear power facility and involving questions of the utility's constitutional and statutory authority
- Represented an agricultural producer in nationwide antitrust class action litigation involving allegations of price-fixing and supply restrictions
- Represented a food manufacturing company in a dispute with an equipment manufacturer, obtaining voluntary dismissal of equipment manufacturer's suit
- Obtained a summary judgment and successfully defended appeal for a state department of education against a constitutional challenge to legislation directing approximately $100 million per year to public charter schools
- Obtained reversal for a state department of education on appeal of adverse decision regarding local authority standing to sue
- Successfully appealed a $15 million judgment against an engineering, design and manufacturing company before the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division
- Represented a general contractor in arbitration against project owner resulting in a successful recovery of all money owed under contract
- Achieved a favorable settlement for an auto insurer facing a third-party bad faith claim
- Achieved a favorable settlement for pro bono clients in a fee dispute with their former attorney who had avoided making a repayment that was due to them for more than a decade
- Advised a project owner on pre-dispute strategy related to contractor's claims
- Represented an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) class action defendant in filing Rule 23(f) petition
- Achieved a favorable settlement for a pro bono client in a dispute with his homeowners' association
Credentials
- Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
- University of Edinburgh, MSc, Literature
- University of Nottingham, B.A., English, first class honors
- Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- All Superior Courts in Georgia
- All State Courts in Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
- State Bar of Georgia, 2016-Present
- Federal Bar Association, 2017-Present
- Atlanta Bar Association, 2017-Present
- American Bar Association, 2017-Present
- Dean's Scholar Prizes, Harvard Law School: Federal Courts, 2016; Taxation, 2015; Administrative Law, 2014; Criminal Law, 2014; Public International Law, 2014; Civil Procedure, 2013
- School of English Prize, University of Nottingham, 2006
Publications
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