Nelson Mullins is a diversified law firm of more than 1,000 attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals with offices across the United States serving clients in more than 100 practice areas.

• Our litigators are trial lawyers, serving Fortune 200 clients, litigating high-stakes matters, and participating on national and virtual trial teams.
• Our corporate and transactional teams provide high quality corporate, securities, finance, venture capital, commercial real estate, real estate capital markets, and technology services.
• Our government relations team serves clients at the federal, state and local levels and includes former high-ranking government officials.
• Our intellectual property group has been recognized nationally for IP litigation and provides a full-range of IP services for clients across industry sectors.
• Our Nelson Mullins Encompass team is a dedicated practice group that provides integrated e-discovery and information governance services to clients on a flexible and scalable basis, serving as Enterprise E-Discovery Counsel for Fortune 200 clients and empowering focused and defensible strategies with law firm accountability.

Together, we serve as trusted advisors to clients across a range of business sectors with client relationship fundamentals of quality, dependability, solution-oriented service and value.

We’ve built and grown our Firm in response to our clients’ needs.  From a Firm of one attorney in 1897 to 1,000+ attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals today, we provide advice and counsel to corporate and individual clients in a wide variety of areas, including: litigation, corporate, banking, e-discovery, economic development, securities, finance, tax, estate planning, intellectual property, governmental relations, regulatory, healthcare, environmental, real estate, labor and employment, privacy and security, and white collar crime.  Nelson Mullins attorneys have handled cases in most states in the United States and have argued before many appellate courts.  Nelson Mullins' clients range from:

• Fortune 500 companies
• Private equity and venture funds and portfolio companies
• Emerging growth companies and start-ups
• Academic institutions
• Non-profit entities
• Individuals and trusts

Nelson Mullins is committed to serving the most vulnerable in our society with social, economic and legal issues through pro bono service.  The Firm engages in complex pro bono litigation, policy and legislative advocacy, and provides individual representation to a diverse group of people and organizations.  Our pro bono clients include individuals who serve our country and nonprofits whose mission is to serve people with limited means.  As often described by our late partner and advocate, Stephen G. Morrison, pro bono work helps all of us remember the reason we have laws—to protect, to help, to guide and to seek justice.  The Firm embraces and supports our pro bono culture.  After all, those who serve the law should also serve the poor and disadvantaged.

Helping others advocate for what is right and serving our profession and our communities are among the Firm’s core values.  Nelson Mullins’ legal team has had past presidents for the American Bar Association and the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence and four past presidents of Lawyers for Civil Justice and DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar.  

In 1999, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism was established at the University of South Carolina Law School with a gift from the Firm’s partners.  The Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism advances the public interest by promoting and encouraging high ethical conduct and professionalism by lawyers and judges.  Its purpose is to enrich teaching and research on the legal profession and to promote professionalism, civic leadership, and public service in the practice of law.