Nick obtained his JD from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. During his final semester of law school, Nick worked with the initio Technology and Innovation Law Clinic, where he assisted entrepreneurs and startups with their business, intellectual property, and privacy law matters. As a Research Assistant in the summer after 1L, he examined legal and geopolitical risks surrounding subsea internet cables and assisted with the research, design, and delivery of an upper-year intensive course on cybercrime and data breaches. Since his first semester of law school, Nick volunteered as a student advocate with the Dalhousie Student Advocacy Service, where he represented university students in academic integrity hearings.
Prior to law school, Nick completed his Bachelor of Science (Honours) and Master of Public Administration at Queen’s University. During the pandemic, Nick worked with Ontario's Treasury Board Secretariat, where he contributed to multiple provincial Budget cycles and briefed senior officials and Cabinet members on several multimillion-dollar emergency funding requests from municipalities. Throughout his undergraduate degree, Nick held various summer research and policy positions with Ontario’s Ministry of Health, Toronto General Hospital’s Department of Pathology, and the Rural Ontario Medical Program.
Passionate about finance and technology, Nick has completed the Canadian Securities Course and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in Canada (CIPP/C). He is also part of the Board of Directors of an international multidisciplinary research journal and mentors undergraduate peer reviewers.
Outside of work and his studies, Nick enjoys cooking, reading a range of non-fiction books, playing and watching basketball and tennis. He is also fluent in Polish.