Education
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Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., Order of the Coif, magna cum laude, 2005
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Macalester College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1999
Bar Admissions
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District of Columbia
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Maryland
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Ms. Nice’s energy and clean technology practice includes strategic federal public policy and regulatory counseling on an array of issues, including clean technology manufacturing incentives, energy efficiency standards development and compliance, energy performance contracting, renewable energy project finance, Greenhouse Gas emissions regulation, federal funding to support renewable energy and biofuel research and development, and clean tech research and development. She is currently serving as Deputy Director of the Cleantech Open Mid-Atlantic Region, a global business accelerator for cleantech entrepreneurs.
Ms. Nice’s practice also includes policy and regulatory counseling and advocacy regarding agriculture and food policy issues, including federal commodity support policy, nutrition policy, marketing and labeling regulation, agriculture research funding, and food safety legislation and regulation.
In her practice, Ms. Nice provides counsel regarding potential federal funding opportunities, develops strategic initiatives to further client goals, and helps clients navigate the impacts of potential policy and regulatory changes. Ms. Nice also assists clients in the development of internal corporate sustainability policies and programs and helps clients ensure compliance with federal regulations.
Ms. Nice specializes in handling complex matters involving numerous governmental, consumer, public interest, and academic stakeholders with potentially divergent interests. In addition, she regularly works within coalitions of like-minded organizations to advance specific regulatory or legislative goals through multi-pronged strategies, including marketing, grass roots organizing, and other external communications.
Before joining Patton Boggs, Ms. Nice served as senior legislative assistant, speechwriter and floor assistant to Minority Whip David E. Bonior (D-MI). In this role, she was at the center of many legislative initiatives before Congress during her tenure. The experience she gained and relationships she developed while working in the U.S. House of Representatives make her particularly effective in her representation of clients before Congress and the executive branch.
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