Overview
Attorney Nathan Dickson’s practice includes representing plaintiffs and
victims of personal injury and wrongful death, including extensive
experience with defective and dangerous products (automobiles, ATVs,
boats, dangerous drugs and medical devices, deer stands, and other
consumer products), commercial truck negligence, automobile accidents
negligence, single car accidents (including cases of vehicle crash
worthiness, seat belt and safety feature failure, and road construction
defects), and premises liability.
Areas of Practice:
Personal Injury
Business Litigation
Class Action & Multidistrict Litigation
Consumer Protection Litigation
Estate & Trust Litigation
Farm and Agricultural Product Defects
Home Construction Defects
Admissions:
Alabama, 2005
Mississippi, 2006
New York, 2012
Memberships:
American Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Alabama Association for Justice
Biography
J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2005 cum laude
B.A., Millsaps College, 2001 magna cum laude
Nathan also represents individuals and small business who have been
injured financially. These practice areas include insurance bad faith,
insurance premium fraud, consumer fraud, breach of contract, breach of
warranty of heavy equipment, farming equipment, and logging equipment,
agricultural damage, and breach of warranty on new home construction and
foundation repair. Nathan’s experience has included trials and
settlements of totaling in the millions of dollars, including a recent
verdict of $450,000 for a breach of warranty on a piece of logging
equipment.
Nathan’s practice also includes substantial class action, multi-district
litigation and mass tort litigation. He has represented clients in
numerous areas of class action, including securities litigation,
anti-trust litigation, fuel price-fixing litigation, and agricultural
and crop related damage, including representing rice farmers in a case
against Bayer CropScience for contaminating U.S. rice supplies with
genetically modified rice causing the farmer’s serious economic damage.
The matter, In re: Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, resulted in Bayer paying rice farmers $750 million.
Nathan is active in the legal profession and in his church and
community. He serves or has served as President of the Third Judicial
Circuit Bar Association for Bullock and Barbour Counties, Executive
Committee Member of the Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section
(chairman of the admissions ceremony committee), and serves or has
served on several other law-related committees.
Nathan serves or has served on the Bullock County School Board, as
President of the Union Springs Recreation Board, on the Bullock County
Tourism Committee, the Union Springs Community Outreach Council, and
founded and is President of the Bullock County Social Justice
Foundation, a non-profit corporation building community and providing
enrichment opportunities for youth and children in Bullock County,
Alabama. Nathan also serves or has served as lay leader, Sunday School
teacher, and finance chairman of First United Methodist Church in Union
Springs, where he annually leads the church’s Stop Hunger Now hunger relief project which raises money for and packages 20,000 meals annually for world hunger relief.
Experience
Nathan’s experience has included trials and settlements of such cases into the multi-millions of dollars.