Nikita focuses her practice on pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare litigation. She defends drug and medical device manufacturers against product liability claims. She was a member of a trial team in a medical device product liability case that resulted in a defense verdict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She currently serves as a member of the deposition team in the pelvic mesh and hernia mesh litigations. She also manages all Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh cases that are newly filed in Mississippi federal and state courts. In addition to product liability claims, Nikita has experience defending employers against discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination claims. She has also represented corporations against personal injury and breach of contract claims.
Overview
Nikita focuses her practice on pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare litigation. She defends drug and medical device manufacturers against product liability claims. She was a member of a trial team in a medical device product liability case that resulted in a defense verdict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She currently serves as a member of the deposition team in the pelvic mesh and hernia mesh litigations. She also manages all Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh cases that are newly filed in Mississippi federal and state courts. In addition to product liability claims, Nikita has experience defending employers against discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination claims. She has also represented corporations against personal injury and breach of contract claims.
Practice Areas
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2023-2024
- Fellow, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2022
- Lawyers of Color - Hot List, 2022
- Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, Rising Star Award
Bar Admissions
- Mississippi, 2016
- U.S. District Courts
- Mississippi: Northern, Southern
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
Education
- 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
Associations
- 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
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- 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.