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Nick Abbott

Fellow

Nicholas Abbott is a Civil Rights Fellow at Relman Colfax. Nicholas joined the firm in 2022 and works in the civil rights litigation and counseling groups.

Nicholas is a graduate from Harvard Law School, where he was a teaching assistant, worked in the Massachusetts Attorney General clinic, and conducted research on class action law. During law school Nicholas also helped found Desegregate CT, an advocacy group dedicated to land use reform in his home state of Connecticut. Prior to law school, Nicholas worked for the City and County of San Francisco as a San Francisco Fellow.

In his free time, you can find Nicholas kicking a soccer ball, at the movie theater, or biking around the streets of DC.

Featured Cases

Jane Doe #1 v. Mukwonago Area School District
On June 30, 2023, Relman Colfax filed this gender discrimination lawsuit against the Mukwonago Area School District (MASD) and its superintendent, Joe Koch, for denying Jane Doe #1, an eleven-year-old transgender girl, access to girls’ restrooms at school. (The girl’s name is being withheld to protect her privacy.) The complaint raises claims under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause.
Brookline Opportunities LLC, et al. v. Town of Brookline, N.H., et al.
On September 21, 2021, Relman Colfax filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the Town of Brookline, New Hampshire, its Planning Board, and its Selectboard discriminated on the basis of familial status, race and national origin—in violation of the Fair Housing Act—when they resisted the development of an 80-unit affordable “workforce housing” development proposed by Brookline Opportunities, LLC. The Town is 93% White, with very small African-American and Latino populations, has a high per household median income, and very few rental units

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School; A.B., Harvard University

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