Mr. Nicholson is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Loyola Law Journal. Mr. Nicholson is former Chairman of the Workers' Compensation Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and a former member of the Illinois State Bar Association Workers' Compensation Council. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association. He has spoken at ITLA seminars on Workers' Compensation and authored the chapter on "Total Permanent Disability" in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Workers' Compensation handbook. He has been nominated by the Leading Lawyers of the State of Illinois as being a top lawyer in his field of practice.