McMillian

Nikita focuses her practice on pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare litigation. She has been a member of multiple trial teams in medical device product liability cases, one of which resulted in a defense verdict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She has also served as a key member of the expert and deposition teams in several multi-district litigations, including the Johnson and Johnson Pelvic Mesh and 3M Combat Arms MDLs. Nikita is also experienced in defending manufacturers against product liability claims outside of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. In particular, she has provided on-site trial support to lead trial counsel, which included preparing the testimony of defense experts and company witnesses and preparing witness examination outlines, in a four-plaintiff consolidated trial involving claims against Monsanto Company’s glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup.

In addition to product liability, Nikita is experienced in defending against medical malpractice and negligence claims, and she’s played a key role in favorably resolving multiple cases involving such claims against healthcare providers. She has also represented employers against discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination claims and defended corporations against premises liability claims.

• Drug & Device Litigation
• Labor & Employment
• Mass Torts

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare

• BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Ones to Watch, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2023-2026
• Fellow, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2022
• Lawyers of Color - Hot List, 2022
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, Rising Star Award

• Mississippi, 2016
• U.S. District Courts
• Mississippi: Northern, Southern
• U.S. Court of Appeals
• 5th Circuit

• Mississippi College School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2016
  • Executive Editor, Law Review
  • Moot Court Board
  • The Order of Barristers
  • The National Order of Scribes
  • Finalist, August A. Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition
  • First Place, Appellate Advocacy Award, Copeland, Cook, Taylor, & Bush Moot Court Competition
  • Judge Robert G. Gillespie Award for Best Oralist, Copeland, Cook, Taylor, & Bush Moot Court Competition
  • Recipient, Mississippi Bar Award – Litigation Section
• University of Southern Mississippi, B.A., Criminal Justice, 2013
  • Leslie Rawls Fletcher Academic Scholarship
  • Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
  • Campus Civitan Club
  • Eagle Ambassador

• Clerkship, Honorable Carlton W. Reeves, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, 2016-2017

• Mississippi Bar
• American Bar Association
• Mississippi Women Lawyers Association
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
• Charles Clark American Inn of Court
• Jackson Young Lawyers
• Capital Area Bar Association

• Speaker, 41st Annual Mississippi Labor & Employment Law Conference, August 2018.
• Author, “The Wait is Over – Opinion Letters are Back,” eLABORate, April 2018.
• Author, “Majority Republican NLRB Reasserts Exclusive Authority to Settle Labor Cases,” eLABORate, December 2017.