Nick joined the Bureau’s Division of Financial Practices in August 2011, where he has primarily worked on payday lending and debt collection matters. From 2012 through 2016, Nick led the FTC’s case against payday lender Scott Tucker and AMG Services, Inc., resulting in the largest litigated judgment in FTC history ($1.3 billion). Nick has also worked on advertising deception matters and mortgage and credit relief scams, and teaches a course in unfair trade practices law as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law. Before joining the FTC, Nick spent 12 years in private practice at law firms in New York and Washington, D.C.