Nicole Wolfe Stout is a partner of the law firm of Strawinski & Stout, P.C., in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in civil litigation involving trucking, cargo, aviation, products liability, premises liability, and insurance coverage disputes. She regularly defends insurers and companies in lawsuits involving serious injury and wrongful death. Ms. Stout is a native of Lenoir City, Tennessee, and received her undergraduate degree in English and Political Science with a minor in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1995. She was the Student Director of the University's Mock Trial Program, and she competed in regional and national Mock Trial Competitions. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998. She was a member of Moot Court, and served as Co-Director of Emory's Special Moot Court Teams. She has served on the Education Committee of the Atlanta Claims Association, and participated in its annual Mock Trial in 2003 and 2004. Ms. Stout is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the litigation and aviation sections of the Atlanta Bar Association, the Lawyer's Club of Atlanta, the Atlanta Claims Association, and the International Aviation Womens Association (IAWA).
Ms. Stout is admitted to practice in all Georgia State Courts, the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts. Her most recent presentations include Risk and Insurance Management Society Seminar (RIMS), Paper Trails to You: Discoverability of Post-Incident Investigations and Reports, 2004; and the SMU Journal of Air Law & Commerce, Thirty-Eighth Annual Air Law Symposium, Privileges and Immunities Available for Self-Critical Analysis and Reporting: Legal, Practical and Ethical Considerations, 2004. Ms. Stout's paper presented at the SMU Air Law Symposium was published in the Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Vol. 69, Issue 3, Summer 2004. Ms. Stout is also the author of the recent article, Parameters of the Passenger-Carrier Relationship in Commercial Travel, published in the Summer 2005 edition of Pre-Flight, by the Aviation Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. She presented a paper entitled The Tripartite Relationship: Legal and Ethical Obligations at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Seventeenth Annual Aviation Law and Insurance Symposium in July of 2006. Additionally, she published an article on tripartite relationship in the Winter 2006 edition of Pre-Flight.
