After graduating law school, Nicholas served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lee A. Solomon of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Honorable Hany A. Mawla of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. Both clerkships exposed him to a wide array of issues facing businesses in the state.
Nicholas graduated with honors from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where he also served as a lead editor of the Drexel Law Review.