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Nicole Liguori Micklich represents franchisees and master franchisees, subfranchisors, development agents, area developers, and area managers in all aspects of their franchise business and in litigation. In her construction practice, Ms. Micklich represents general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers and routinely handles matters involving payment issues, mechanic’s liens, bond claims, termination, delay and acceleration.
Ms. Micklich represents franchisees in every stage of their relationship with the franchisor. She assists potential franchisees as they review disclosure documents and proposed agreements, routinely handles compliance and royalty disputes and other contract disputes, regularly negotiates sales and transfers of agreements and represents clients in mediation, arbitration and court actions involving contractual and statutory issues including termination. In 2008 Ms. Micklich represented two international development agents whose agreements were threatened by their franchisor, and achieved favorable settlements for both clients. The results in any case depend on the facts and circumstances of that particular case. Ms. Micklich was the recipient of the 2005 Connecticut’s New Leaders of the Law Impact Award. The award is given annually to an attorney who has been admitted to the Bar for ten years or less, who has made important contributions, who serves as a role model, and whose efforts have made a substantial impact on the law or the legal profession.
Ms. Micklich authored, Providing Keys to the Courthouse Without Giving Up Full Recovery, published in the Winter 2006, Vol. 15 No. 2 edition of Construct!, a publication of the American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, Construction Litigation committee. She co-authored Should Courts Review Arbitration Awards of Punitive Damages: Intrusion or Introspection?, with Attorney Garcia, which was published in the summer 2004, Volume 14, No. 4 of Construct!. She also coauthored, with Attorney Hedberg, Surety Bad Faith After PSE Consulting: An Implicit Bar to Indemnification, which was published in the Fall of 2004, Volume 14, No. 1 of Construct!.
Ms. Micklich presented as part of a three-member panel during the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry annual meeting on May 18, 2006 in San Diego, California. The topic of the presentation was Material Price Escalation Clauses. An article excerpted by the presenters for publication was published in the Summer 2006 edition of Construct!, Volume 15 No. 4 Ms. Micklich also presented at the Connecticut Bar Association, Construction Law Update, Trends in Arbitration, in May 2006 and May 2008.
She is a member of a number of professional associations including the Connecticut Building Congress, of which she is a Director, the New Haven County Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, the Rhode Island Bar Association, Professional Women in Construction, and the American Bar Association (Litigation Section, Forum on the Construction Industry and Forum on Franchising).
Ms. Micklich graduated cum laude in 1999 from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in Classics and Philosophy and earned her J.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2003. While a law student, she was the Law Student Division Representative from UCONN to the American Bar Association, as well as an ABA member of the litigation Section and the Forum on the Construction Industry. In addition, she served as treasurer of the Italian American Bar Association and appeared in the Who’s Who of American Law Student for 2002
Ms. Micklich’s experience in the construction industry includes employment with Cherenzia Excavation, Inc. As an on-site job cost analyst Ms. Micklich tracked and analyzed project production and cost on a daily basis. She also managed various permitting issues, DEP compliance issues and the coordination of subcontractors and suppliers.
Ms. Micklich is admitted to practice in both Connecticut and Rhode Island.
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