Niccolo’s practice focuses on complex litigation at all levels of the federal courts. He has handled high-profile matters for a wide range of clients across diverse areas of law, including defending a major sports league in a multi-billion-dollar antitrust class action before the Ninth Circuit and representing a major pesticide manufacturer before the Supreme Court regarding a preemption issue affecting nationwide state-tort litigation over its products. His practice spans multiple areas of constitutional law, including the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments, and statutory law, including antitrust, bankruptcy, environmental, and class-action litigation.
Niccolo earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, from which he graduated Order of the Coif. While at UVA, Niccolo was an Articles Editor for the Virginia Law Review, as well as a member of the school’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and a problem author for the William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition. Prior to joining Clement & Murphy, Niccolo clerked for the Honorable Judge Daniel P. Collins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.