Nicholas "Nick" Fallin
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• Age: 32 years ["Heart"]
  
• Address: 1980 Ellsworth Ave in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh 15232["In Loco Parentis", "Shelter", "The Beginning",�Testimony�]. More aboutShadyside here
• Home telephone number 412-555-0144 [�Testimony�]
• Marital status: Single. Has never been in a long-term relationship ["Heart"] See Nick's Liasons (and Mini-rants!)
  
• Children: Lesley Walker

• Father: Burton Fallin Mother: Anne Lynn Fallin
• Siblings: None
• Parents divorced when Nick was 10 years old ["Heart"]. Nick didn't know about Anne's pill addiction until cousin Jeremy blurted it out at dinner.["Family"]. He still doesn't know that the pill addiction and Anne's marital infidelities were the reason why Burton left her. Likewise, he doesn't know that Burton tried to get custody of him during the divorce. ["Family"]
• Mother died of cancer when Nick was 12 years old. ["Pilot","Heart"]
• Maternal relatives: Liz Hetherington and Jeremy Hetherington["Family"]
• Fallin relatives (cousins, aunts, uncles, grand parents) live in Donora, PA. ["Lolita?']
• Paternal grandfather and father (1953-1955) worked for Clayton Steel fabricating plant ["Lolita?']. Grandfather was a non-union immigrant steel worker, fired for union dispute, became a drunk and died the week Burton passed the Bar.["Lolita?"]
• Childhood trauma: was alone with his mother the morning she "went in" and died ["Causality"]
• As a child, Nick lived in a house on Parker Street which Burton bought in 1965 for $10,000. Anne made Nick play with a mentally retarded boy, Hugh Williams, who lived three doors away because she felt sorry for Hugh. Hugh, on the other hand, would beat Nick up. Nick also had a blue Schwinn bicycle and �long hair�. One of his childhood birthday parties was �superhero� themed with Nick dressed as �The Flash� and Hugh dressed as �Superman� [�The Neighborhood�]

Education:

• Boarding Schools after Mother died ["Heart"]. Nick didn't like boarding school ["Family"]
• Undergraduate: ?
• Law School: ?

• Worked at the New York firm of Swan & Cranson prior to F & A[Columbia TriStar Production site, "Solidarity"]
• Fallin & Associates: Nick's been working there for 5 years [Columbia-TriStar production web site] or 4 1/2 years ["Loyalities"]
• Quit FA to work for McGee and Kirk as a partner ["Loyalities"]. Nick's brief employment at Kirk & McGee was marked by failure. Some of his clients chose to remain at F & A. He was forced to work mergers and acquisitions, rather than corporate finances. For a variety of reasons, Nick succumbs to his drug addiction and begins using cocaine again. In the process, he manages to mess up a "sweetheart" deal merger. ["Causality"]. After a drunken bar fight, Nick and Burton agree that it is Nick's best interest for him to come back and work at F & A. According to Burton, Nick needs "structure" in his life ["Privilege"]
• During Burton's quest for a judicial position on the Federal bench, Burton promises to give the firm to Nick. Burton begins shifting his clients to Nick. The first is a client wanting to acquire a food service company. Unfortunately, there is a series of miscommunications between Nick and the client resulting in the deal being mishandled. Burton's confidence in Nick drops["Shelter"]
• Formed law practice in new firm with Jake Straka, Henry Stone and Lisa Jacobi: After Burton accepts the Federal bench, he retires, making Nathan Caldwell the managing partner of F & A. Consequently, F & A is then renamed "Caldwell & Associates". Along with Jake, Nick offers three associates the chance to be partners in a new firm. One of the three, Arnold Parker, blabs to Caldwell about the plan. ["The Beginning"]
  The law firm was called "Fallin and Straka" and employed James Mooney.["Testimony", "The Dead"]. The firm dissolves after Burton resigns the Federal judgeship and returns to private practice["The Next Life"].
• Fallin & Fallin: Nick is managing partner ["The Next Life"]

Drug Offense
• Circumstances of arrest: Party at Nick's apartment and Nick was found in possession of some grams of cocaine. ["The Divide"]. After Nick's arrest, he kept mum about his dealer, thus protecting him from arrest and prosecution. ["Feeding Frenzy"]
• Charge: drug possession misdemeanor, which was plead down from "more serious charges" ["Reunion","Lolita?","Heart"]
• Sentence: 1500 hours community service, 3 years probation, $10, 000 fine ["Pilot" ]
• Supervising Judge: Judge Stanton ["Pilot""Lolita?"] until his death in ["Mothers of the Disappeared" aka "MOD"]. Judge Handly ["MOD"]
• Probation Officer: Has two ["Pilot"]. Officer Bacharach ["The Funnies"] and Dale Petrocki ["Lawyers, Guns, and Money"]
• Probation Number: 40385 ["The Funnies"]
• Prosecutor: Herb Connolly ["Reunion", "The Funnies"]
• Nick's Dealer: Colin ["Feeding Frenzy", "Causality"]. Has a drug den in apartment number 205 of an undisclosed building.["Feeding Frenzy"]. Colin also killed a dealer and framed another for the murder using information unwittingly provided by Nick.["Feeding Frenzy"]
• Drug: Cocaine ["Feeding Frenzy","Causality"]
• Phil's Support Group: Has been attending group three times a week for the last 8 months. The first time he "stands" to share with the group, Nick admits that he relapsed and used cocaine in "Causality". Alvin, an acquaintance of Phil's, coincidentally attends this meeting and hears this confession. Nick did not know Alvin was at the meeting. Alvin offers to be Nick's new sponsor. Nick accepts. ["The Divide"]
• Burton's "Deal": The DA wanted a 5 years jail sentence for Nick's offense. Burton made a deal with then-Senator Nathan Caldwell: Caldwell was to pull some strings in exchange for partnership at F & A.["The Beginning"]

Assault and Drug Possession Charge (Season 1-Season 2 story arc)
• After Nick and Mandy Gressler�s fight in his home [�The Beginning�], Nick is charged with assault and possession of cocaine. The charges could revoke his prior probation and he would have to serve time in jail. Fortunately, Nick is cleared of any parole violations and the felony charges are dropped. [�Testimony�]

Drug History
• It had been alluded to in �Paternity� that Nick�s drug problem has been with him since college.
• Rob�s call: In 1996, while both were in New York City, Nick and Rob were using cocaine at a party. Nick passes out on the sidewalk and is brought to a nearby Emergency Room, where he is combative. Nick leaves the emergency room and is found lying in the snowy sidewalk half-nude. Rob brings him back to his place and stays up with Nick the rest of the night. Rob calls Burton. According to Rob, Nick kept repeating �Call my dad�. According to Nick, there was some kind of event. Nick disputes the passing out and leaving the emergency room shirtless part. He also disputes that he told Rob to call Burton. Rob, we learn, is still using cocaine. So ambiguity over who was telling the truth [�Where you are�]

• Anonymously gave Lawrence Neal a Playstation2 ["Paternity"]
• Knows CPR [*"Heart", "The Funnies"]
• Doesn't own a pet [*"Heart"] Revised: see Bart Stanton
• Car: silver four door BMW with sun roof [various episodes, "Men from the boys"], car is leased by F & A["Causalities"], License plate number is XZY 915 ["Solidarity"] and XZW-912 in [�Where you are�]
• Cellphone: Motorola Talk About [various episodes], cellphone is provided by F & A ["Causalities"]
• Legal Services office was the broom closet, until Lulu Archer took it over ["Loyalities"]
• Broke off affair with Meghan Barstow ["Home"]
• Alcoholic beverage of choice: tequila ["Causality"]
• Owns a Palm Pilot["Family" "MOD"]
• Mother never let him watch TV when he was a child, but he used to watch TV whenever he stayed with Burton[�Monster�]
• Nick's first job as managing partner of Fallin & Fallin is to sack an associate. ["The Next Life"]
• Burton�s traditional birthday gift to Nick is a check in the amount of his (Nick�s) age. For example on Nick�s 33rd birthday, Burton gave him a check for $33. [�The Neighborhood�]
• On Nick�s 33rd birthday, Burton gives him a watch. The watch was given to Burton by Anne when he started Fallin & Associates. It is inscribed �Burton with love Anne�[�The Neighborhood�]