Nikki Lewis Simon

Nikki Lewis Simon, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig’s Miami office, also serves as Director of Client Development and Corporate Social Responsibility. As part of this evolving role, Nikki works to strategically align the firm’s diversity and inclusion programming and initiatives with client needs thereby serving as an integral component of the business development function on a global scale, as well as to expand the current efforts of the firm’s diversity initiatives in collaboration with cross-firm stakeholders, among other things.

Previously, for more than 15 years, she primarily represented her cross-industry clients’ business objectives by protecting their capital, whether human, intellectual or financial, against claims of wrongdoing in complex commercial litigation matters that span the full panoply of issues targeting businesses’ corporate character and brand, like claims for discrimination, defamation, fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence and malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, securities law violations and wrongful death.

Nikki’s civic involvement includes serving on the board of the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association and the Kozyak Minority Mentoring Foundation, as well as other community involvement. She is also an active member of the American Bar Association, the National Association of Women Lawyers, and the National Bar Association. Within The Florida Bar, Nikki is a Vice Chair of the Federal Court Practice Committee, including serving as chair of the 2015 an 2016 Federal Judicial Roundtable; a member of the Business Law Section; and a member of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, among other roles. She has been recognized in the South Florida Legal Guide, “Top Up and Comer,” Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite” and in Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching.” She received a law degree, cum laude, from the University of Miami, where she also serves as an Adjunct Professor, and a Bachelors of Print Journalism, cum laude, from Florida A&M University.

Nikki and her husband, Andy, are also the blessed parents of five children between the ages of 3 and 19.