Nick Aalberg represents clients in government investigations, Anti-Terrorism Act litigation, and other complex civil litigation matters. His experience includes independently drafting more than 40 briefs, drafting appellate briefs, conducting more than 15 depositions and expert depositions, conducting oral argument, and litigating as lead counsel on more than 40 Fair Credit Reporting Act cases, including up until trial.
Nick recently accomplished a Ninth Circuit win reversing the denial of a motion to compel arbitration. He also has achieved victories on summary judgment, Daubert, and other district court motions.
Nick maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing Minnesotans in criminal expungement proceedings and counseling asylum seekers through Jones Day's Border Project.
Prior to attending law school, Nick worked as a data scientist at the National Security Agency, liaison officer to the Central Intelligence Agency, and security information and event management engineer at another large law firm. He has extensive experience with privacy and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and coding in Bash, Python, SimpleXML, and Search Processing Language, among other computer programming languages.
Additional Publications
- August 19, 2022
PTAB Institutes PGR, Denies Conditional IPR Petition - April 16, 2022
Active Cyber Measures: Reviving Cold War Debunking and Deterrence Strategy, Journal of National Security Law & Policy
- Georgetown University (J.D. 2023; Law Clerk, Supreme Court Institute); Colby College (B.A. 2014; double major in Government and Computer Science)
- Minnesota and U.S. District Courts for the District of Minnesota, District of Colorado, and Eastern District of Michigan
- Data Scientist, National Security Agency (2015-2018; received two performance awards recognizing outstanding achievements in counterterrorism)