Nicholas C. Gullette

Mr. Gullette was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but has spent most of his life between Central Florida and Southern California.  He is admitted to the Florida and California Bar.  Prior to practicing law, Mr. Gullette served several years as a Board Certified Respiratory Care Practitioner, specializing in critical care, emergency, and post-open heart recovery.  During this time, Mr. Gullette also supervised a series of arterial blood gas laboratories, serving adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients in a four-hundred bed medical center encompassing two facilities in Los Angeles.  He concentrates his practice on the defense of medical negligence and general liability claims.

Mr. Gullette graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University, Northridge, and thereafter Cum Laude from Pepperdine University School of Law.  Following his first year of law school, Mr. Gullette secured a highly coveted judicial externship with the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California, the Honorable Geraldine Mund; and, in his second year, was invited to work for the law school as a faculty research assistant.  Mr. Gullette was later appointed Literary Editor for the Pepperdine Law Review, and achieved further recognition as Regional Champion in the American College of Trial Lawyers/ABA National Trial Competition.

Additionally, Mr. Gullette has received the Justice Lewis Powell Medallion Award in Oral Advocacy, a "Book Award" from Westlaw Publishing for academic excellence in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and served as Magister of Phi Delta Phi, Pepperdine's Legal Honors Fraternity.

Mr. Gullette is a member of The Florida Bar, The State Bar of California, and the National Order of the Barristers.  He remains active with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Resurrection Catholic Church, and is an ongoing sponsor of PetSmart's pet adoption and fostering program.