Nicholas C. Moraitakis

Nick is a native Atlantan and has lived in Atlanta all his life. He attended public schools in DeKalb County and then worked his way through Emory College and Emory Law School. He is the first in his extended family to have graduated college. Nick was fortunate enough during college and law school to earn internships allowing him to work in the Department of Natural Resources during Jimmy Carter’s governorship and then in the United States Congress in 1975. His exposure to the operations of government and politics led him to law school and the practice of law. After graduating from Emory Law School in 1977, Nick immediately began practicing law with a defense litigation firm in downtown Atlanta. The first fourteen years of Nick’s practice were spent with this firm and its successor firm, representing insurance companies and self-insured corporations in the defense of tort actions in courts throughout the State of Georgia. As a defense lawyer, Nick tried dozens of cases to verdict involving automobile and truck accidents, product liability, negligent security claims, slip and fall accidents, and insurance contracts. While with his defense litigation firm, Nick also began developing a plaintiff’s practice. He successfully litigated product liability cases against automobile manufacturers involving issues concerning heating and cooling systems, and fuel-fed fires. Nick was also lead counsel in a highly publicized case against Atlanta Hospital involving a doctor allegedly responsible for 3 deaths within a very short period of time. The end result was a very successful resolution prior to trial based on negligent credentialing claims against Atlanta Hospital which thereafter was investigated by the State Medical Review Board and eventually forced to close its doors.