Honors and Awards:

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

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, Maryland State TBI Advisory Board, 1998-2011
• Lifetime Fellow, American Trial Lawyers Association
• Maryland State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, 1998-2005
• Second World Congress on Brain Injury, Seville, Spain, May 1997
• First World Congress on Brain Injury, International Brain Injury Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, May, 1995
• Founding member, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
• Appointed to Maryland State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, 1998-2008
• Member, American College of Legal Medicine
• Member, American Bar Association.
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association.
• Member, Case Management Society of America
• Member, National Spinal Cord Injury Association
• Member, Brain Injury Association of Maryland (Director, 1994-1997; President, 1997-2000)
• Member, Brain Injury Association (USA)
• Member, International Brain Injury Association
• Lifetime Fellow, Roscoe Pound American Trial Lawyers Foundation
• Founding Member, Civil Justice Foundation
• Founding Member, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
• Member, Maryland Association for Justice
• Member, American Association for Justice
• Member, Baltimore County Bar Association.
• Member, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Member, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Master of the Bench, J. Dudley Digges American Inn of Court, Baltimore

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Routinely provides 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.
• 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.  

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• "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.
• "The Life Care Planner as an Expert Witness in Brain or Spinal Cord Injury Cases," Inside Life Care Planning, Sept.-Oct. 1995
• "Wisdom and Oak: TBI Case Management and Advocacy," Case Review, Spring 1997.
• "General Standards for Imposing Liability," and "Damages in Motor Vehicle Collision Cases," Maryland Automobile Deskbook.
• "Legal Issues for Families of Children with TBI," Children with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Woodbine House, 2001.

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Commercial Truck, West Africa:  $12,000,000 judgment for spinal cord injury claim of a minor.  Injury occurred in Accra, Ghana; case was presented in New York.  Truck exiting residential compound knocked a wall down onto the young man who had helped open a gate. Taking this to entry of judgment led to settlement for all available coverage.
• Premises Liability:  Settlement - $700,000 in mild traumatic brain injury claim in fall due to design defect on commercial property. 
• Verdict: $5,912,628  in spinal cord injury claim involving a fire escape railing being cut by a vendor during removal of a pool table by crane from 2d floor of a pub.  The cut railing had been tied up with string, rather than properly welded.
• 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 ▬
• Tractor Trailer - Trucking - Jackknife:  $975,000, in wrongful death claim involving tractor trailer, brake maintenance and logbook issues, and  jack-knifing ▬
• 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 ▬
• Vehicular rollover:  Brain injury, $3,500,000 settlement on behalf of 16 year old driver ▬
• 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 ▬
• 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 ▬
• Premises liability:  $ 3,250,000 settlement in brain injury (closed head injury) case ▬
• Premises liability: $1,000,000 settlement for spinal injury claim, premises liability ▬
• Tractor Trailer - Trucking case:  $ 675,000 settlement in "Conversion Hysteria" case, mimicking brain injury ▬
• In the following cases Nathaniel Fick was either in role of lead counsel, co-counsel, or consulting counsel:
• Student-Athlete.  Rules, Equipment, Supervision failures.  Traumatic Brain Injury.  Confidential mid-seven figures resolution, with special accommodations., 2011

Other Outstanding Achievements:

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

Newsletters:

• Fick & May Newsletter [Click Tab]

Educational Background:

• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1993, Neuroscience, Non-Degree Student.
• University of Maryland, College Park.  B.A., 1972
• University of Baltimore Law School, JD  , 1975