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Mr. Nicholson, a lawyer, was a member of the Management Committee and Chaired the Litigation Department at Shaw Pittman, an international law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, and London, now known as Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. From 1996 to 2002, he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Chevy Chase Bank, a $12 billion bank head quartered in Bethesda, Md. While at Chevy Chase Bank, Mr. Nicholson was active in the American Bankers Association, serving as the Vice Chair of its Fraud Prevention Task Force and as a member of the Administrative Committee of the ABA's Government Relations Council. Upon leaving the bank in 2002, Mr. Nicholson co-founded Kenwood Capital, LLC, a start-up investment fund. Mr. Nicholson received his Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University and his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University School of Law. | 