Nicole Frazer Reaves
- Of Counsel, U.S. Chamber Litigation Center
Nicole Frazer Reaves is of counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Reaves handles a variety of litigation matters for the Chamber.
Most recently, Reaves served for five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, she argued nine cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including the seminal standing case TransUnion v. Ramirez. She also briefed seventeen merits cases and around one hundred cert-stage briefs in the Court. And she briefed four emergency applications at the Court, all of which were successful. She additionally made strategic recommendations to the Solicitor General regarding whether the United States should file appeals or amicus briefs in around one hundred cases.
Before that, Reaves practiced law at Cooper & Kirk PLLC, and Sidley Austin LLP. She briefed and argued appeals in several circuits and handled a wide variety of commercial litigation, including an environmental matter, a consumer class action case, and a patent infringement matter.
Reaves served as law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in government from Patrick Henry College. Reaves is a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court.
