Nash is lead counsel for clients in high-stakes litigation across the country, with extensive jury trial, bench trial, and arbitration experience. Such matters have included contract disputes, intellectual property cases, environmental and toxic tort claims, class actions and putative class actions. For example, over the prior 20 years, Nash has represented dozens of energy clients nationwide in matters with over $15 billion in dispute.

Nash is a frequent speaker at industry and bar conferences on topics including trial practice, including those sponsored by the American Bar Association. A former chair of the American Bar Association’s Trial Practice Committee, he has published several items on litigation and trial skills. See, e.g., Nash Long, ed., Trying Your First Case: A Practitioner’s Guide (American Bar Association, 2014). He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America every year since 2010, and by Chambers USA as a “Leader in the Field.”

Nash clerked for the Honorable Frank W. Bullock, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina from 1997 to 1998. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the US Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Western District of North Carolina, the Middle District of North Carolina and the Eastern District of North Carolina. Prior to his law career, Nash served as a probation officer in the district courts of Dallas County, Texas.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1997

BA and BS, Southern Methodist University, magna cum laude, 1993

• Environmental Litigation: Defends companies in Clean Air Act enforcement actions, including those brought under the New Source Review enforcement initiative. Representative cases include Sierra Club v. Otter Tail Power Co., 608 F. Supp. 2d 1120 (D.S.D. 2009), aff’d 615 F.3d 1008 (8th Cir. 2010), United States v. Duke Energy Corp., 278 F. Supp. 2d 619 (MDNC 2003), aff’d on other grounds, 411 F.3d 539 (4th Cir. 2005), vacated by Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., 549 U.S. 561 (2007), and National Parks Conservation Association et al. v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 2010 WL 1291335 (E. D. Tenn. Mar. 31, 2010).
• Environmental Litigation: Defends electric utilities in Clean Air Act enforcement actions over opacity limits in operating permits. Representative cases include Sierra Club v. Tennessee Valley Authority, No. 3:02-cv-2279-VEH (N.D. Ala. Jan. 6, 2009) and Sierra Club v. Dairyland Power Cooperative, No. 10-303 (W.D. Wis.)
• Environmental Litigation: Represents electric utilities in administrative challenges to agency permitting actions.  
• Energy Litigation: Represented an electric utility on a confidential arbitration of a contractual dispute with a railroad.
• Financial Services Litigation: Obtained reversal of an award of punitive damages against a major financial institution in a class action in Missouri.
• Commercial Litigation: Successfully represented a major financial institution in a series of real estate disputes in Washington.
• Intellectual Property: Successfully defended a major financial institution in a S.D.N.Y. patent infringement suit in which the jury rendered a complete defense verdict of no infringement and invalidity of the plaintiff’s patent.

• Member, American Bar Association (Chair, Section of Litigation’s Health Law Litigation Committee; past chair, Trial Practice Committee)
• Member, North Carolina Bar Association
• Member, Mecklenburg County Bar Association

• Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2016
• Chambers USA – “Leader in the Field,” 2014
• Named among Law360 Environmental Rising Stars, 2011
• The American Lawyer/Corporate Counsel – Top Lawyers in Commercial Litigation, 2011
• Mecklenburg County Bar Leadership Institute, 2002

• “The ‘Constitution Remand’: Judicial Review of Constitutionally Dubious Statutes,” Journal of Law & Politics, Vol. XIV, No. 4
• Trial Practice Journal, ABA Section of Litigation
• Course Correction: The Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on Discovery, EDDE Journal, Summer 2014, Volume 5, Issue 3
• Trying Your First Case: A Practitioner’s Guide
• The Clean Air Act Regional Haze Program, Key Issues for States in the Current Planning Period, EM Magazine