Honors and Awards: Top 100 Trial Lawyers, The American Trial Lawyers Association., American Spirit Honor Medal, United States Army., John Marshall Honor Society, Martindale-Hubbell Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers – AV Rating

Special Licenses/Certifications: Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy

Bar/Professional Activity: Member, American Association for Justice; Maryland Association for Justice; Maryland State TBI Advisory Board, 1998-2008; Civil Justice Foundation (Founding Member); Lifetime Fellow, Roscoe Pound American Trial Lawyers Foundation; Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (Founding Member); International Brain Injury Association; Brain Injury Association (USA); Brain Injury Association of Maryland (Director, 1994-1997; President, 1997-2000); National Spinal Cord Injury Association; Case Management Society of America.

Pro bono/Community Service: Private Pilot, Instrument Rated.   Volunteered to serve ANGEL FLIGHT, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free air transport  of needy patients and families to specialized medical facilities for evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation.  , In addition to extensive pro bono case work over the years, Nathaniel Fick and Maureen May routinely provide FREE LEGAL SERVICES (pro bono) to the public by drafting detailed and personal Advance Directives, and Appointment of Health Care Agent for anyone in the community., Appointed to Maryland State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, 1998-2008.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings: "Legal Issues for Families of Children with TBI," Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Woodbine House, 2001., "General Standards for Imposing Liability," and "Damages in Motor Vehicle Collision Cases," Maryland Automobile Deskbook., "Wisdom and Oak: TBI Case Management and Advocacy," Case Review, Spring 1997., "The Life Care Planner as an Expert Witness in Brain or Spinal Cord Injury Cases," Inside Life Care Planning, Sept.-Oct. 1995, "The Role of the Neurolawyer in Brain Injury Case Management, the Lawyer’s Perspective," The Journal of Head Injury, National Brain Injury Research Group, 1994.

Verdicts and Settlements: In the following cases Nathaniel Fick was either in role of lead counsel, co-counsel, or consulting counsel:, Premises liability: $1,000,000 settlement for spinal injury claim, premises liability ▬, Premises liability:  $ 3,250,000 settlement in brain injury (closed head injury) case ▬, Tractor Trailer - Trucking case:  $ 675,000 settlement in "Conversion Hysteria" case, mimicking brain injury ▬, Commercial Truck, West Africa, knocking compound wall down in exiting premises:  $12,000,000 judgment, followed by settlement at all available coverage, for spinal cord injury claim of a minor.  Injury occurred in Accra, Ghana; case was presented in New York ▬, Medical Malpractice:  $ 5,600,000 verdict, in complex case of a minor who sustained a brain injury in motor vehicle accident as a passenger, and was then victim of malpractice in nursing home care including a few hypoxic episodes and one anoxic episode ▬, Trucking - Tire Maintenance [the "Baloney skins" case]:  Brain injury,  $450,000 settlement on behalf of a 32 year old mother of 10 year old daughter ▬, Vehicular rollover:  Brain injury, $3,500,000 settlement on behalf of 16 year old driver ▬, Tractor Trailer - Trucking - Wheel Maintenance:  $1,700,000, in Wrongful Death claim due to breakaway of a tractor trailer wheel, which came over the median and had initial contact with the hood of decedent's vehicle, consequent second crash causing death ▬, Tractor Trailer - Trucking - Jackknife:  $975,000, in wrongful death claim involving tractor trailer, brake maintenance and logbook issues, and  jack-knifing ▬, Premises Liability:   Partial settlement - Joint Tortfeasor - $ 1,000,000 in spinal cord injury claim, resulting from a 1 story fall from a defective fire escape, maintenance and alteration, railing giving way ▬

Other Outstanding Achievements: Delegate to First World Congress on Brain Injury, International Brain Injury Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, May, 1995., Delegate to Second World Congress on Brain Injury, Seville, Spain, May 1997.

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Educational Background: University of Maryland, College Park.  B.A., 1972, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1993, Neuroscience, Non-Degree Student., University of Baltimore School of Law,  J.D., 1975.