Nicolas W. Steenland

Nicolas W. Steenland is a committed and dogged advocate who serves the firm’s civil rights clients seeking redress for violations of their constitutional rights.

Mr. Steenland has more than a dozen years of legal experience that he brings to bear on behalf of his civil rights clients. He worked for nearly five years in the general litigation group of the largest law firm in Atlanta, Alston & Bird LLP. He then went on to clerk for two federal judges in the Southern District of New York, the oldest federal district court in the country that is often referred to as “the mother court” of all other federal trial courts. There, Mr. Steenland worked on numerous federal civil rights matters and learned firsthand how federal judges approach these cases. Mr. Steenland also spent more than two years serving as an enforcement counsel for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), where he gained experience holding powerful firms and people in authority accountable for their misconduct.

Mr. Steenland received his JD from The University of Chicago Law School. During law school, he interned at the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender and served in the law school’s Federal Criminal Justice Clinic.