Nicole Welindt focuses her practice on appellate litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, she served as a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice’s Opinion Unit, where she researched and drafted formal legal opinions of the Attorney General.

Nicole was previously a Supreme Court and appellate litigation associate with an Am Law top 10 law firm and a Fellow in the California Department of Justice’s Office of the Solicitor General, where she briefed and argued appellate matters in state and federal courts. She has argued appeals before the Ninth Circuit, the Fourth Circuit, and the California Court of Appeal.

Nicole served as a law clerk for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Gary S. Feinerman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. in Neuroscience from Pomona College.