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Nick Miller is a litigation associate in Covington’s New York office. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, class actions, government-facing litigation, and appeals.
Nick has extensive experience representing leading tech companies. He was a member of the Covington team that represented TikTok in successfully enjoining the Trump Administration’s efforts to ban the app in 2020, and the team that challenged Congress’s effort to ban the app in 2024, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. Nick has also helped various tech companies analyze cutting-edge issues involving the First Amendment, data privacy, and novel applications of consumer protection laws.
In his appellate practice, Nick has represented parties before the U.S. Supreme Court (at the merits stage and on the emergency docket) and before several state appellate courts. In September 2024, he was part of the Covington team featured as one of Law360’s “Legal Lions of the Week” for representing the Nevada State Democratic Party before the Supreme Court in its successful opposition to an emergency application by the Nevada Green Party, which sought to vacate a Nevada Supreme Court order relating to the state’s presidential ballot shortly before ballots were distributed.
At the trial level, Nick has authored numerous dispositive motions and successfully obtained and opposed emergency relief for his clients.
In his pro bono practice, Nick has represented defendants in criminal cases on direct appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York Appellate Division, and he helped litigate a civil rights action on behalf of a veteran who was killed by police in his own home. He also represented a prisoner wrongfully accused of possessing contraband.
Before rejoining Covington, Nick clerked for Judge John G. Koeltl of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Judge Susan L. Carney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Nick is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School.
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