Assistant Professor 
nicole.dillard@howard.edu 

Nicole Dillard is a practicing attorney who is a Juris Doctor (JD) graduate of Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. Professor Dillard has also earned her Masters of Education in Bilingual Education from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Virginia. Professor Dillard has served the Howard University School of Communications department since 2011 first as an adjunct and now as an Assistant Professor where she has taught in the Legal Communications sequence.

Professor Dillard’s law practice focuses primarily on labor and employment consultation and litigation, as well as business immigration and corporate visa matters. Ms. Dillard is an experienced litigator with more than 14 years experience representing corporate clients in trial, appellate area courts, and administrative law forums for employment matters and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings as well as representing clients in federal administrative forums on immigration matters.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Dillard was an English as a Second Language teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia.