Nicholas Kormann is Deputy First Assistant Attorney General. Kormann, previously the Director of Investigations of Fatal Police Encounters, with the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, is a seasoned trial attorney and longtime public servant. Prior to joining OPIA, Kormann served for over a decade in the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, first as an Assistant Deputy Public Defender and then as First Assistant Deputy Public Defender in the Union Region. He clerked for the Honorable Ronald D. Wigler in the New Jersey Superior Court (Essex County) and worked as an Associate Attorney at Day Pitney, LLP. Kormann received his B.A. from Rutgers College and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School in Newark.