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Nikki Lewis Simon

Nikki Lewis Simon

Senior Vice President and Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer

Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion efforts that further enrich client engagements and community investments.

Her role is indicative of, and integral to, Greenberg Traurig’s core values of collaboration and inclusion – principles that inform the firm’s operations and legal business in meaningful, positive ways.

Prior to assuming primary responsibilities on the business side of the firm, Nikki has represented her cross-industry clients’ business objectives by protecting their capital – human, intellectual, and financial – against claims of wrongdoing in complex commercial and class action litigation. Those matters have spanned the panoply of issues and claims businesses often face, from discrimination to wrongful death, defamation to fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence and malpractice to breach of fiduciary duty and securities law violations.

Given her experience, Nikki is also an active member of Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice’s team of lawyers who concentrate in strategic employment counseling. The team provides pragmatic employment legal advice- both nationwide and jurisdiction specific— that address the client’s risk tolerance, cultural realities, operational bandwidth, and budget. Together, the team and client design and implement employment compliance programs as well as strategic advice and planning that help foster positive employee relations that also strengthen innovative operating guides and job-aides; industry tailored dynamic trainings to virtually every organizational level; employment compliance audits and employee engagement sessions.

Capabilities

Recognition & Leadership

  • Selected, Diversity Global Magazine, "Top 15 Diversity Officers," 2024
  • Winner, Corporate Counsel Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL) Awards, "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion," 2024
  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2024-2025
  • Selected, National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), "Rising List," 2024
  • Recognized, The National Black Lawyers, "Top 100 in Florida," 2023
  • Recognized, Daily Business Review, "Diversity and Inclusion – Individual," 2023
  • Winner, Corporate Counsel Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL) Awards, "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Team Award," 2023
  • Recipient, Profiles in Diversity Journal, "Diversity Leader Award," 2022
  • Selected, Most Influential Black Lawyers List, Savoy Magazine, February 2022
  • The Florida Bar
    • Member, Board of Governors, 2019-Present
    • Member, Business Law Section
  • Member, Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, Diversity & Inclusion, 2022
  • Fellow, Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. (WRS) Leadership Academy, Inaugural Class
  • Alumna, Leadership Broward, Class XXXII
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, National Bar Association
  • Member, National Association of Women Lawyers
  • Board of Directors, Kozyak Minority Mentoring Foundation
  • Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association
  • Member, Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter NBA
  • Member, Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Bar Association
  • Member, Miami-Dade Chapter, Florida Association of Women Lawyers
  • Charter Member, South Broward Alumnae Chapter (SBAC), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

Credentials

Education
  • J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
  • B.A., Journalism, cum laude, Florida A&M University
Admissions
  • Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Related Capabilities

Litigation Labor & Employment Trade Secrets Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)