Nicholas Botta is a Shareholder at Spear Wilderman and serves as manager of the firm’s Legal Services Department. His practice is devoted exclusively to traditional labor relations and multiemployer employee benefits law. Nick represents a wide range of labor unions in matters involving unfair labor practices, grievances, collective bargaining and contract negotiations, and related proceedings. He also serves as counsel to numerous multiemployer employee benefit funds (including defined benefit pension plans, defined contribution plans, health and welfare funds, apprenticeship and training funds, and labor-management cooperation funds). In addition, Nick represents various union-sponsored legal services plans.
Nick joined Spear Wilderman in January 2013. He initially focused on immigration and family law before fully transitioning to the firm’s traditional labor and employee benefits practice in 2015, where he built a successful practice representing unions and funds in complex labor disputes and benefit matters throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Nick graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 with a major in biopsychology and a minor in neuroscience. He was awarded a scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, from which he graduated in 2009. During law school, he defended civil rights matters as an intern with the ACLU and clerked for the Honorable Terrence F. McVerry at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He also authored an award-winning article on civil and human rights issues and received the Thomas M. Cooley II Legal Writing Award for the most distinguished thesis paper in his graduating class. He is admitted to practice in all federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Nick resides in Bucks County with his wife and children. Outside of work, he is an avid reader and writer, a die-hard Pittsburgh sports enthusiast, and enjoys camping, live music, and traveling with his family.
