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Practice Areas
Stacey Nakasian, a partner of the firm, focuses her practice on business litigation, including shareholder disputes, commercial lease conflicts, customer/broker litigation, director and officer liability claims, non-compete agreements and trade secret cases. Her clients include closely held corporations, professional practice groups, labor staffing companies, and real estate development and management companies. Ms. Nakasian also represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in complex estate litigation.
Ms. Nakasian has appeared before state and federal courts in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan and Arizona, as well as before arbitration and mediation panels.
Work for Clients
Ms. Nakasian has been retained by and regularly represents high-net-worth individuals and corporations in a variety of securities arbitrations involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and unsuitability claims. She successfully defended officers, directors and corporations against claims made under RICO, and obtained substantial judgments on behalf of real estate development and management companies. She has secured injunctive and monetary awards in trade secret and non-compete cases and has extensive experience handling commercial contract disputes.
Professional Activities and Honors
Ms. Nakasian served as law clerk to the Solicitor General of the United States and for the Honorable George H. Revercomb of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Nakasian is President-Elect of the Executive Committee of the Federal Bar Association, R.I. Chapter, and serves on the Advisory Board of Roger Williams Law School. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurse Service of Greater Rhode Island. Over the years, she has been active in leadership positions for Rhode Island Legal Services and Festival Ballet of Rhode Island.
Education
University of Virginia (B.A., cum laude , 1984); The George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1990, Order of the Coif); Notes Editor, George Washington University Journal of International Law and Economics, 1989-1990.
Papers and Presentations
"Proposed Amendments to the Provisions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act of 1976 Governing Execution of Judgment," 23 Geo. Wash. J. of Int'l Law 179 (1989).
Bar and Court Admissions
Pennsylvania (1991); Rhode Island (1993); U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1991); Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1994).
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