Nic Roethlisberger

nroethlisberger@kblfirm.com
 

Nic Roethlisberger has a broad litigation practice that includes complex commercial litigation, trade secret disputes, professional negligence, defamation, and derivative lawsuits. He has handled large, high-stakes matters worth hundreds of millions of dollars and smaller, sensitive cases where clients faced both monetary and reputational risk.

Nic regularly takes cases to trial – both in court and private arbitration. Nic also has handled appeals in the California Courts of Appeal, the Ninth Circuit and the Fifth Circuit.

Before joining KBL, Nic was a senior associate in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. Nic is a Bay Area native and before law school was a newspaper editor. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Education, Honors:

• J.D., University of California Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), summa cum laude, Hastings Law Journal’s editorial board

• B.A., Journalism, San Francisco State University

• Extern for the Hon. Charles Breyer, Northern District of California, and the Hon. Ernest Goldsmith, San Francisco Superior Court