Nicole Black

Nicole Black is an attorney and prolific author in Rochester, New York. If you are seeking representation in a legal matter, you can call her at (585) 210-0815 or contact her here.

She is 40 years old, has been married for 12 years and has 2 children. She has lived in Rochester, NY for most of her adult life.

She graduated from Albany Law School in 1995 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1996.

She interned in the Monroe County Public Defender's Office appeals bureau from 1995-1996. During that time, she accomplished one of the most significant wins of her legal career: She was successful in overturning a murder conviction in the matter of People v. Sierra, 231 A.D.2d 907, 647 N.Y.S.2d 891 (4th Dep't 1996).

Shortly after she argued that appeal, she was hired as an Assistant Public Defender and worked there for nearly 4 years, handling over 3000 criminal cases during that time frame. She conducted countless hearings and trials, including a number of jury trials.

In 1999 She left the Public Defender's Office and was hired as an associate at Trevett, Cristo, Salzer & Andolina. She continued to handle criminal defense matters. She handled assigned counsel matters, her own retained criminal defense matters and worked with some of the partners at the firm--widely held to be some of the best criminal defense attorneys in town--on their cases. She also handled all types of civil litigation matters, ranging from personal injury litigation (plaintiff and defense), commercial litigation and built up her own employment discrimination book of practice.

She co-authors the legal treatise Criminal Law in New York, a Thomson-West publication, and writes a weekly column for The Daily Record called Legal Currents. She co-authored "Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier." She is in the process of writing a book about lawyers and cloud computing that will be published by the American Bar Association in the spring of 2011.

Feel free to visit her professional website for more information.