NICHOLAS H. WEIL, ESQ.
ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON D.C.
Nick Weil has built a career on legal research and writing, in both objective and adversarial styles. As clerk to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii and extern to a United States Magistrate Judge, he learned to write for the judges who decide cases. As Assistant Law Revision Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, he resolved ambiguities in statutory text in keeping with the drafters' intent. He also holds a master's degree in forensic linguistics, the study of language as evidence, and brings that discipline to cases that turn on what the words on a label mean, and what a reasonable consumer would take them to mean.
practice experience
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ASSISTANT LAW REVISION COUNSEL (2008 - 2011)
Analyzed and resolved ambiguities and drafting errors in federal statutory text
Performed senior review on two complete titles of the United States Code
INSTITUTE FOR FORENSIC LINGUISTICS, INTERN (2013 - 2014)
Researched and drafted pretrial and trial strategy memoranda for litigants whose cases turned on linguistic evidence
COURT ADMISSIONS
Missouri, 2005
District of Columbia, 2015
education
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, J.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
Coursework in Complex Civil Procedure, Advanced Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice & Procedure, Evidence
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, B.A.
Cum Laude; Linguistics
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, M.A.
Graduated with distinction