Nicole Whyte

NicoleWhyte, Founding and Managing Partner of Bremer, Whyte, Brown & O'Meara, LLPAdmitted to the California State Bar in 1991 and the Nevada State Bar in2000, Ms. Whyte has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, witha focus in the areas of family law, complex civil litigation, trucking lawand insurance defense. Ms. Whyte has successfully handled hundreds ofcomplex, multi-million dollar lawsuits and has been awarded the highestaccolade in Martindale-Hubbell: an AV rating. This was as a result of anextensive, confidential review conducted among the legal profession inher community. The AV rating signifies Ms. Whyte’s legal abilities areof the very highest standard and her professional ethics are unquestioned.Additionally, in a survey conducted by Los Angeles Magazine and SuperLawyer Magazine, Ms. Whyte also has the honor of being named California“Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine.Even more pertinent than her awards and ratings, Ms. Whyte strives to keepher client’s interests at heart, and reach timely resolutions of challengingsituations with the least amount of confrontation possible. Within thefamily law field, she handles a multitude of issues such as divorce,custody, visitation, modifications, child support, parentage/paternity,property division, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements andcontempt/enforcement. Ms. Whyte provides individualized counseling andrepresentation in all areas of family law, and listens carefully to her client’sproblems to provide representation that is both thoughtful and competent.Ms. Whyte has written extensively in the field of Family Law, with manypublished articles in this area of specialty. Ms. Whyte has also lecturedto various organizations on her other areas of specialty, including WestCoast Casualty Seminar 1998: Care, Feeding and Handling of Experts;West Coast Casualty Seminar 2000: The Effects of the Aas decision -A Subcontractor’s Perspective; Lorman’s Construction Defect Claimsin California: The Subcontractor’s Perspective: Defending the Trades;Mealey’s Construction Defect Litigation Conference 2001: The Art ofthe Release: From Standing to Structured Settlements; and West CoastCasualty Seminar 2002: The Nuts and Bolts of Handling a ConstructionDefect Lawsuit. Ms Whyte also has the honor of co-authoring a book,‘Strategies for Family Law in California” 2010 edition, wherein Ms Whyteaddresses the topic of ‘Streamlining Strategies and Costs in today’s FamilyLaw Cases’.In addition to speaking for many organizations, Ms. Whyte is a memberof the Family, Construction and Insurance sections of the Orange CountyBar Association, the Clark County Bar Association (Nevada) and ABA(American Bar Association). She is also a member of the Civil Procedureand Evidence panels of the Orange County Bar Association’s ResolutionsCommittee, responsible for invoking constructive changes in thelegislation. She graduated from the National Institute For Trial Advocacy(NITA) program in trial advocacy in January 1994, and is Master Bencherof the Robert A. Banyard Inn of Court, where she also holds the office ofsecretary. Ms. Whyte also serves as Judge Pro Tem to the Orange CountySuperior Court. In addition, Ms. Whyte serves as a mediator and settlementofficer for the local Superior Courts.A native of Johannesburg, Ms. Whytereceived her Bachelor of Arts and her LLB from the University of theWitwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1985 and 1987, respectively.After graduating from law school, she served as state prosecutor at theJohannesburg Magistrate’s Court, handling criminal trials. Followingher tenure as state prosecutor, she gained civil litigation experience at ageneral practice, civil law firm in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ms. Whyteimmigrated to the United States in 1991.Ms Whyte and her husband, Steven Nataupsky, managing partner of theIntellectual Property law firm Knobbe Martens, live with their 4children in Newport Beach, California. When not practicing law, Ms Whyte enjoysspending time with her family, exercise and dance, travel, and reading.