Nicholas Bellos helps individuals, businesses, and governmental agencies find creative and practical solutions to complex legal issues.
Nick litigates complex civil disputes for plaintiffs and defendants at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. He counsels clients at each stage of litigation, from pre-complaint investigation through discovery, trial, and appeal. His practice spans public and private law, including contractual disputes, fraud, tortious interference, invasion of privacy, employment discrimination, election litigation, internal investigations, zoning, and public bidding.
A skilled writer and researcher, Nick has experience briefing dispositive motions and appeals, arguing motions, drafting written discovery, and taking and defending depositions. Across this work, Nick breaks down complex legal issues and provides clients with understandable and pragmatic analysis.
Nick is a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Hiring Committee, and Associate Development Committee.
Before joining the firm, Nick served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2020 – 2021) and to the Honorable Jan E. DuBois of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2019 – 2020). Prior to law school, he worked as a business analyst with Deloitte Consulting and as a high school history teacher.
Representative Matters
- Secured summary relief on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Treasury in action to enforce administrative subpoena related to the Department’s audit of a publicly traded corporation’s unclaimed property holdings.
- Successfully defended municipality in preliminary injunction proceedings seeking to prohibit use of electronic voting machines in the 2024 general election.
- Investigated and responded to multiple EEOC complaints filed against large public employer, including litigating one complaint to favorable summary judgment ruling in federal court.
- Representing the School District of Philadelphia and multiple municipalities as amici before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in challenge to the statutory damages cap on tort claims against Commonwealth agencies.
- Representing a New Jersey pharmacy chain in procurement challenge that has moved through each level of New Jersey’s courts, including Supreme Court.
- Representing a privately held company as plaintiff in a contentious state-court action asserting claims of fraudulent inducement against the seller of a small business.
- Representing a medical test kit supplier in complex commercial dispute with an industrial product manufacturer before the Michigan Court of Appeals.