Nick joined Jaffe PR in 2010 as Vice President, Public Reputation Services, and is based in San Francisco where he focuses on clients in California, Washington, Oregon and Nevada. At Jaffe PR, Nick is able to tap into all of his career experiences as he counsels legal clients on media and marketing strategy.
Prior to joining Jaffe PR, Nick was the West Coast and Asia marketing manager for Boston-based Ropes & Gray, where he oversaw marketing, media relations and business development for the firm’s offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Nick also served as the director of marketing for Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, a Los Angeles-based boutique law firm focusing on labor and employment and intellectual property in the entertainment industry.
Although California has been Nick’s home base for the past several years, he spent most of his professional life in Seattle – most recently as the regional marketing manager for Heller Ehrman – where he headed marketing and media relations for the firm’s offices in Seattle, Portland, Anchorage, Hong Kong and Singapore.
While in Seattle, Nick was a founding board member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association and has since been an active member in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay area chapters.
Prior to his move into legal marketing, Nick joined Seattle’s Highline K-12 school district as public information officer. Within the first few months on the job he found himself representing the school district in the sensational case involving the arrest and ultimate conviction of 6th grade teacher Mary Kay Letourneau. The book “If Loving You is Wrong” by Gregg Olsen details Nick’s handling of the case during his four years with the school district. While at Highline, he was further tested by media scrutiny over toxic mold, the impact of airport noise on district schools, the successive failures of school bonds issues, and several fatal school bus accidents.
Needless to say, after the Highline school district experience, Nick is able to handle any kind of media crisis that comes his way.
Nick also worked for 16 years at KIRO-TV (CBS) in Seattle as a writer/producer and ultimately as station spokesperson and public affairs director. While at KIRO-TV, Nick served on the board of governors of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and was awarded an Emmy for producing the best public affairs programming in the Pacific Northwest.
Nick has an MBA degree in marketing from the University of Washington and a BA in communications from Stanford University.
