When it comes to the practice of employment law, Chattanooga attorney Maury Nicely says he strives is to keep his clients out of trouble on the front end.
“If you advise employers well, you keep them out of the ditch,” says Nicely, who has more than two decades of experience in the field.
Nicely, 48, is a member of Evans Harrison Hackett PLLC, the Chattanooga law firm he helped found in 2010. He quips that employment law is “the closest thing to getting into criminal law without the criminals.”
The Scenic City native says he wasn’t always focused on the law. The McCallie School graduate went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville where he majored in English.
“I was going to get a Ph.D and teach college,” he says. “I decided it didn’t feel right.”