Nina Fields Britt

Managing Attorney

Areas of Practice

Education

University of South Carolina, J.D., magna cum laude, 2000
College of Charleston, B.S., cum laude, 1997

Admissions

2000, South Carolina
2002, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
2009, U.S. Supreme Court
2011, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
2011, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
2011, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

Professional Memberships

Charleston County Bar Association
South Carolina Association for Justice
South Carolina Women Lawyers
South Carolina Bar
South Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Stars (2012-2014)
Finalist, Trial Lawyer of the Year by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (2003)

Nina Fields Britt is a RPWB member whose work focuses on complex legal matters to combat unfair business practices throughout the United States and also on representing injured people. Her primary areas of litigation include class action lawsuits on behalf of consumers, insureds, and small businesses, complex litigation on behalf of businesses and individuals, and medical malpractice on behalf of individuals and their families. Since 2022, she also has served as RPWB’s managing attorney.

Nina’s work on behalf of consumers harmed by illegal and unscrupulous corporate conduct brings justice to her clients and is a deterrent to widespread corporate wrongdoing. She enjoys the intellectual challenge of analyzing and arguing complicated legal matters that have real-world implications for millions of Americans.

Just as corporate wrongdoing can have consequences outside of the organization, it also can harm individuals affiliated with a company. Nina led a team that recently secured a $55 million award in a multi-day arbitration proceeding on behalf of a former company director wrongfully stripped of his equity compensation.

Born and raised in Seneca, S.C., Nina’s father was a small town lawyer who also served as mayor among other elected and appointed positions. Seeing the positive impact her father had on their community had a profound influence on Nina and led her to pursue a career in law.

Nina carries his legacy with her to this day. At the heart of her work, Nina is passionate about representing individuals and their families who are victims of medical malpractice in South Carolina. She finds advocating for her medical malpractice clients among her most rewarding work and has helped those clients recover millions of dollars.

Nina graduated cum laude from the College of Charleston and then finished third in her class at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Following law school, Nina clerked for the Honorable G. Ross Anderson, Jr., United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, before joining Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, where she worked on Michael Brickman’s litigation team. In 2002, she joined Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman (now Rogers, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, LLC).

Nina lives in downtown Charleston with her son, James. She enjoys travel with friends and family, being involved in her son’s school in downtown Charleston, and escaping to Chicago, Illinois when she can in the summer months. She hopes that someday soon she will be able to take up her favorite hobby–horseback riding–again. Following in her father’s footsteps as a devoted Gamecock, she served on the University of South Carolina’s Board of Visitors from 2018 to 2025.

Fields is also a contributing author of the chapter on the Fourth Circuit in the Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis (Elizabeth J. Cabraser & Fabrice N. Vincent, eds., American Bar Association 1st ed. 2018), a perennial bestseller publication of the American Bar Association.

Representative Cases

Mutual Fund Litigation

As fund assets grow, the cost of managing a mutual fund does not increase at the same rate as revenues generated by fees do. Nina has served as counsel in cases on behalf of investors against mutual fund advisors for charging excessive fees. A number of her cases have resulted in settlements to investors, and her work has caused some mutual funds to initiate reforms, including fee breakpoints and better oversight by boards of directors. The litigation included appeals to federal circuit courts and the United States Supreme Court, which resulted in a unanimous reversal of a Seventh Circuit opinion in Jones v. Harris Associates L.P., 559 U.S. 335 (2010)

Motor Fuel Sales Practices Litigation

Nina served as counsel and was a member of various committees in multi-district litigation against oil companies and gas station operators for failing to account for the temperature of gasoline and its effect on the value of the gasoline sold to consumers. This litigation resulted in settlements with some gasoline retailers that obligated them to modify their sales practices.

In addition to complex securities litigation and class actions, Nina also represents individuals in personal injury and wrongful death actions and businesses in complex disputes.

Diminished Value Cases

After a loss, even fully repaired homes are worth less than they were prior to the damage. Nina represented Georgia homeowners suing insurance companies for failure to provide diminished value coverage that, under Georgia law, is part of homeowners insurance. Our litigation helped hundreds of thousands of homeowners get the coverage to which they were entitled.

Insurance Industry Risk Calculations

Nina was counsel in class action litigation against AIG for its methodology of calculating a company’s risk when determining workers’ compensation premiums. The insurance company used a rolling three-year average of paid claims but failed to consider the portion of those claims ultimately recouped from the at-fault party’s insurance company and other sources.

Medical Malpractice

Nina has helped many patients and their families who were victims of medical malpractice in South Carolina. She litigates medical errors that caused catastrophic personal injury or death. Her cases have ranged from doctors failing to make correct diagnoses to health care providers who have made grave errors in prescribing medication or performing procedures.