Suzanne Nicholson

Background

About Suzanne Nicholson

Specialties: Appeals and Writs Suzanne Nicholson is a 1998 graduate of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings). Ms. Nicholson is admitted to practice in Alaska (1998), California and Washington (2008). She is also admitted to practice in all of the District Courts in California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. During law school, Ms. Nicholson served as a judicial extern at the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District in Sacramento. Upon graduation, Ms. Nicholson worked as an Assistant Public Defender in her home state of Alaska, handling dependency and delinquency cases in the Bethel office, which serves the entire southwestern region of the state. In Ms. Nicholson returned to California and began working with George Murphy doing civil appeals at Farmer, Murphy, Smith & Alliston. She joined Murphy, Campbell, Alliston & Quinn at its inception in 2007. Ms. Nicholson’s practice emphasizes civil appeals. She has written hundreds of appellate briefs, petitions for rehearing, petitions for review, and petitions for writs of mandate. She has worked on cases involving a wide range of issues leading to several published opinions. Ms. Nicholson also has wide-ranging litigation experience in insurance coverage and bad faith actions, construction defect litigation, mechanics’ liens and other construction remedies, administrative mandamus, personal injury actions, and real estate and contract disputes. In 2018 Ms. Nicholson started her own practice, emphasizing civil appeals and writs. She was a board member for California Appellate Defense Counsel, and handled appointed dependency appeals as a panel attorney for the Central California Appellate Program and CAP-LA. In March of 2024, Ms. Nicholson joined Wilke Fleury LLP as Of Counsel, where she continues to emphasize civil appeals, and also works hand in hand with the firm's litigators preparing dispositive motions and ensuring issues are preserved for any potential appeal.