Nikki Lewis Simon

Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion efforts that further enrich client engagements and community investments.

Her role is indicative of, and integral to, Greenberg Traurig’s core values of collaboration and inclusion - principles that inform the firm’s operations and legal business in meaningful, positive ways.

Prior to assuming primary responsibilities on the business side of the firm, Nikki has represented her cross-industry clients’ business objectives by protecting their capital - human, intellectual, and financial - against claims of wrongdoing in complex commercial and class action litigation. Those matters have spanned the panoply of issues and claims businesses often face, from discrimination to wrongful death, defamation to fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence and malpractice to breach of fiduciary duty and securities law violations.

Given her experience, Nikki is also an active member of Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice’s team of lawyers who concentrate in strategic employment counseling. The team provides pragmatic employment legal advice- both nationwide and jurisdiction specific- that address the client’s risk tolerance, cultural realities, operational bandwidth, and budget. Together, the team and client design and implement employment compliance programs as well as strategic advice and planning that help foster positive employee relations that also strengthen innovative operating guides and job-aides; industry tailored dynamic trainings to virtually every organizational level; employment compliance audits and employee engagement sessions.

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Selected, Diversity Global Magazine, 'Top 15 Diversity Officers,' 2024
•Winner, Corporate Counsel Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL) Awards, 'Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion,' 2024
•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, 2024-2026
•Selected, National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), 'Rising List,' 2024
•Recognized, The National Black Lawyers, 'Top 100 in Florida,' 2023
•Recognized, Daily Business Review, 'Diversity and Inclusion - Individual,' 2023
•Winner, Corporate Counsel Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL) Awards, 'Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Team Award,' 2023
•Recipient, Profiles in Diversity Journal, 'Diversity Leader Award,' 2022
•Selected, Most Influential Black Lawyers List, Savoy Magazine, February 2022

Florida Bar Leadership Academy, South Branch, 2013-2014

•Participant, Leadership Broward, Class XXXII

•Member, American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law, Litigation Sections

•Member, National Bar Association, Commercial Law Section

•Member, National Association of Women Lawyers

•Member, The Florida Bar, Federal Court Practice Committee

•Member, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Standing Black History Month Committee

•Board Member, Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association

•Liaison, Women's Initiative, Greenberg Traurig (Miami)

•Steering Committee, 2011 Women's Business Forum (Chicago)

•Steering Committee, 2012 Women's Business Forum (South Florida)

•Member, Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter NBA

•Member, Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Bar Association

•Charter Member, South Broward Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

•Board of Directors, Women's Chamber of Commerce of Miami-Dade County, 2011-2012

•Co-Career Development Liaison, Greenberg Traurig (Miami), Associate Development Program, 2010-2012

•Board of Trustees, Mercy Hospital, 2009-2011

•Secretary and Board Member, The Fountain of New Life, 2007-2011