Craig D. Nickerson

Craig D. NickersonCraig D. Nickerson
Associate
617-556-0244, Ext. 214
Fax 617-556-0284

Practice Focus

Craig is admitted to the California bar (2001) and Massachusetts bar (2004). He joined Shaevel & Krems in 2004 after practicing in San Diego, CA for three years and has appeared in state and federal courts in both California and Massachusetts. He also has extensive experience with administrative proceedings/hearings, as well as mediation and arbitration practice in both states. Craig spends most of his time on litigation matters with a focus on the firm’s three major practice areas.

Sample Matters

  • Represent landowner against prescriptive easement claim;
  • Represent multiple defendants against allegations of physical and sexual abuse;
  • Represent abutters in appeal of City of Boston zoning decision;
  • Represent teachers in relation to DSS allegations/hearings, workers’ compenation, Accidental Disability Retirement and other employment related matters;
  • Represent large residential landlords relative to motion practice and trials in district court and housing court.

Memberships

  • Massachusetts Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section

Education

  • California Western School of Law, J.D. (cum laude, 2001); Staff Editor of the California Western Law Review;
  • Ball State University, M.A. (History, 1998);
  • North Adams State College, B.A. (History, cum laude, 1992).

Community Involvement

  • Westborough Town Democratic Committee
  • Active coaching youth sports.

Publications

  • Gender Bias in a Florida Court: Young v. Hector and the Competition Between “Mr. Mom” and the “Poster Girl for Working Mothers,” California Western Law Review, Fall 2000.
  • God, Vodka, and Gender Relationships: Depictions of Soviet Life in the Fiction of Vasily Shukshin, 1958-74. M.A. Thesis,
    Ball State University, Spring, 1998.
  • Red Dawn In Lake Placid: The Semi-Final Hockey Game at the 1980 Winter Olympics as Cold War Battleground, Canadian Journal of History of Sport, Alan Metcalfe, Michael A. Salter, eds., Vol. XXVI, No. 1, May 1995, 73-85. Also presented at History Conference in Albuquerque, NM, in April 1994.