Nicholas M. O'Donnell

Representative Client Work

• Aid international manufacturers and financial institutions in cross-border disputes
• Advise European state museums and domestic art museums on wartime restitution claims
• Represent public and private companies and individuals in complex contractual, non-competition and non-solicitation disputes
• Obtain preliminary and permanent relief for real property owners concerning property use and rights
• Counsel investment advisers in regulatory compliance and class action civil litigation
• Successfully defended religious academy in challenges to governance
• Litigate in federal and state courts concerning rights of victims of international child abduction
• Obtain restraining orders for victims of domestic violence and successfully assert privacy rights of victims of violent crime

Bar & Court Admissions

• Massachusetts, 2003
• U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Supreme Court of the United States

Publications

• Boston Firm Gets Into the Art Museum Business, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Quoted (July 7, 2011)

Client Advisories

• Expanding Jurisdiction and Contracting Claims: The Supreme Court Declines to Review the Cassirer and Von Saher Cases
• Innocence is No Defense: Case Spotlights the Burden on the Owner
• A Thaw in the Ice? The United States Signals Interest in Court Fight Affecting Sovereign Immunity, Potential Seizure of Cultural Property and Exhibition Loans from Russia
• Key Copyright Case Highlights Pitfalls of Appropriative Art

Speaking Engagements

• "Essentials for the New Collector," The Ellis Boston Antiques Show (October 21, 2011) 

Awards & Honors

• "Up & Coming Lawyer," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2008
• "Rising Star," Massachusetts Super Lawyers, (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011)

Professional & Civic Activities

• Past Vice President, Danforth Museum of Art Board of Trustees
• Boston Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association, Public Interest Leadership Program

Education

• J.D., Boston College Law School, 2003
• B.A., magna cum laude, Williams College, 1997