Nicolas “Nick” Rotsko is a Partner and serves as Chair of the Litigation + Investigations Practice Group.  Mr. Rotsko focuses his practice on business litigation in the National Security space and lawsuits against the Government at all levels – state, local and federal – including contract disputes, constitutional violations, and challenges to agency action.

Mr. Rotsko has a long track record of excellent results as a business litigator, in a wide variety of complex disputes in courts around the country and in international arbitration, including “bet-the-company” breach of contract, business tort, corporate dissolution, and commercial real estate matters.

Mr. Rotsko offers litigation and advisory services for government contractors, including sub/prime disputes, contract claims, negotiation and administration, and compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and other statutes and regulations governing contracting activity. He has litigated sizeable monetary claims against the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where he previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Victor J. Wolski. He has also defended False Claims Act allegations, conducted internal investigations, and managed complex e-discovery.

Mr. Rotsko maintains an active constitutional and administrative litigation practice, asserting the rights of private parties against state, local, and federal governments in a variety of disputes, including civil rights, preemption challenges, environmental and energy regulation, land use, and procurement.

Prior to joining Fluet, Mr. Rotsko was a litigation partner in the Washington DC office of a full-service New York based-law firm, where he led the firm’s Government Contracts group and provided creative, multidisciplinary, strategic counseling and negotiation that integrated the firm’s litigation, regulatory, corporate, banking, tax and government affairs capabilities to achieve clients’ objectives. Prior to private practice, Mr. Rotsko worked as an attorney on judicial and cabinet-level nominations. During law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Nathan D. Mihara of the California Court of Appeal (Sixth District), and to the Honorable Nathan L. Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court.

*Nick Rotsko is admitted to practice law in New York.