Nicholas C. Rowley

Nick is licensed in Iowa, Minnesota, California, and Colorado.

Many consider Nicholas C. Rowley to be the most accomplished trial lawyer of his generation having won more than $1.5 Billion in verdicts and settlements for injury victims and families across the country.

Winner of the 2018 Trial Lawyer of the Year and five time finalist, he is one of the youngest trial lawyers in history to be presented with the award. He has extensive courtroom experience representing victims of serious injuries and medical malpractice, especially those who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, and chronic pain.

Nick, our Denver injury lawyer, has been recognized by dozens of publications for his record-breaking verdicts and work for injury victims and their families. In 2018, Nick was named to The National Law Journal’s Elite Trial Lawyers for having a top 50 verdict in the nation. He was also named “Los Angeles Top Litigators in 2018” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. In 2015, Nick was listed in TopVerdict.com’s Top 100 Largest US Verdicts in the nation. In 2012, Nick was a finalist for the “Consumer Attorney of the Year” award, given by Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC). Nick was recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal for winning a “Top Verdict of 2010” for his $31.6 million jury verdict for the victim of a traumatic brain injury. In 2009, the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego awarded Nick its “Outstanding Trial Lawyer” award. In 2013, Nick was honored with the organization’s top award – “Outstanding Trial Lawyer of the Year”.

Some of Nick’s other recent successes include a record setting $131,000,375 verdict for the victim of a car accident after the driver was over served at a bar, a record setting $74,525,000 verdict for a victim of medical malpractice, $40,000,000 for two parents whose 33 year old son was negligently killed due to corporate negligence, a $38,600,000 verdict for a young man who fell from a hotel balcony while intoxicated, a $17,000,000 win for a woman who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury caused by a fall from a hotel window, $16,500,000 for a young girl who was a birth injury victim, a $13,860,000 win for a mild traumatic brain injury caused by an automobile crash, $10,250,000 for a man who suffered a below knee amputation, $10,000,000 for an Iowa family in a wrongful death lawsuit, and $10,000,000 for a child with a mild traumatic brain injury.

Nick has served as an instructor at Gerry Spence’s famed Trial Lawyers College and delivers keynote addresses nationwide on his revolutionary approach to voir dire and damages. Other lawyers, faced with low settlement offers from insurance companies, frequently bring Nick into their cases just before trial. Nick is a relentless warrior who has prevailed in the courtroom time and time again. He prides himself on his caring and empathic approach to working with his clients and their families, and his ability to help juries find the truth and deliver justice to the injured. Nick has lectured and taught trial skills and his trial by human method across the country in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Louisiana, Colorado, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Idaho, California, and New York.

Nick is on the Board of Directors of the Imagination Workshop, which is a non-profit theater arts organization committed to using the unique power of the theater to provide life-changing artistic opportunities to the mentally ill, homeless veterans, senior citizens, and ‘at-risk’ young people. IW programs give troubled people, frequently alienated or overlooked by society, a safe way to express themselves and gain insight that often helps make their lives more successful.

Nick is also on the Honorary Board of Governors of TLC, Trial Lawyers’ Charities, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to make a positive difference in the quality of life for people within the greater Los Angeles area, focusing on issues related to education, children, battered women, persons with disabilities, and homelessness, by providing financial assistance to needy persons and groups in the greater Los Angeles area.

Nick is the author of the book Trial By Human, where he candidly shares his approach that brings brutal honesty and humanity into the courtroom.

Born in Iowa and raised between Iowa and Arizona, Nick moved out on his own at the age of 15. He worked full time from that point forward and at the age of 17 joined the United States Air Force where he was trained and served as a combat medic. It was through the military and G.I. Bill that Nick got his undergraduate education and was able to attend law school. By the age of 19, Nick completed his bachelor’s degree in social psychology. He also was trained and certified as a firefighter and during his service and college worked as a volunteer firefighter. Nick started law school at the age of 20 and continued his service in the Armed Forces taking special assignments for three more years. In total he served an honorable 6 years in the United States Armed Forces assigned to various units with the United States Air Force and United States Army.

He is a relentless warrior who has succeed and proven himself in the battles of litigation time and time again, however he prides himself on his caring, empathetic approach to working with the injured and their families. He believes in going the distance for each and every client, is not afraid to put any case in front of a jury, and makes insurance companies pay up when deserving injury victims come forward to seek justice.

Recent Verdicts, Settlements and Judgments

• $131 Million verdict for the victim of a car accident in which the driver was over-served at a restaurant/bar

• $74.525 million for the victim of a birth injury caused by medical malpractice in San Luis Obispo

• $45 Million verdict for the wrongful death of a mother killed by a drunk driver

• $40 million for the wrongful death of a 33 year old son

• $38.6 million for a young man who suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a fall from a hotel balcony while intoxicated

• $31.6 million for a young woman with a traumatic brain injury in Kern County, California

• $29.25 million win against State Farm for brain injury, after the policy was open

• $21.6 million jury verdict in a contested motorcycle collision case (2016)

• $18.6 million verdict on behalf of a child who was run over by a garbage truck and lost his leg

• $17 million for a woman with a traumatic brain injury where she appeared normal to those who did not know her

• $16.4 million awarded for medical malpractice

• Verdict for the family of a farmer who was killed in a vehicle crash caused by a commercial vehicle.

• $13.86 million for a professional fighter who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury after a car crash

• $12 million win against State of California for negligent road design

• $10.25 million policy limits for below the knee amputation

• $10.6 Million verdict on behalf of a student who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury because of the school district’s negligence

• $10 million win traumatic brain injury

• Verdict for a family in a wrongful death lawsuit

• $8.3 million judgment for a US Navy Veteran who suffered a penile injury in a San Diego motorcycle crash

• $7.6 million for a client when the defense offered only $300,000

• $6.9 million for a college football player with a traumatic brain injury when the insurance company offered only $30,000 to settle

• $6.5 million verdict for a victim of an assault in a nightclub resulting in facial and eye injuries

• $6.1 million for a victim of assault & battery which resulted in a mild traumatic brain injury with normal MRI scans and normal neuropsychological testing

• Settlement for the family of a man who was struck in broad daylight by a commercial vehicle while he was on the side of the road. He eventually died following the accident.