Support Staff

Nicholas D. Ressetar

For over 20 years Nicholas D. Ressetar has served as the law firm's chief clerk. He primarily engages in the research and writing of appellate briefs to the Pennsylvania Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Courts as well as to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has filed over 400 appellate briefs as well as some 18 petitions for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Nicholas drafts criminal pretrial and posttrial motions and civil complaints, and writes various lower court briefs and legal memoranda.

Nicholas holds a master's degree from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where he was a university fellow and associate editor of the Journal of International Affairs, as well as a certificate from Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union. He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Lafayette College where he served on the board of trustees, was a Charles Dana Scholar, and winner of the Gilbert Prize in English and Frances Shunk Downs Prize.

A resident of the City of Harrisburg, Nicholas is also editor-in-chief of the Orthodox Christian Journal, the publication of the Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America founded by his grandfather in 1927.